Caregivers often neglect their emotional and physical health. How can caregivers care for themselves? Filmmaker Mike Kirk, and AARP caregiving experts Hugh Delehanty and Elinor Ginzler discuss the challenges and rewards of caring for aging parents.
In our war-torn, terrorist-ridden, disease-ridden, inequitable, cataclysmically climate-changing world, it’s hard to imagine a more superficial topic, literally and figuratively, than hair color. Believe me, after researching the topic for a year and interviewing hundreds of people across the country, I know this. But we are people, all of us, not saints.
As you age, you’ll find you need more of some nutrients and less of others. Depending on health conditions and family history, you may want to supplement your diet with vitamins, remove certain foods completely, or increase others. Your diet is greatly impacted by several factors, one of them being a change in body composition. During the later years in life, the body will lose bone and muscle and gain fat because of hormonal changes.
When it comes to your health, strokes are serious business. Even if the symptoms of a stroke are minor, they can turn serious and cause significant long-term problems or even death. That’s why it’s so important to know what a stroke is, how to spot it, and what you can do to prevent strokes or help someone who is having one.
In this radio podcast, pharmacist Sue Brenan explains how pharmaceutical drugs can make our bodies depleted of essential nutrients and what we can do to prevent depletion.
Do you remember Terri Schiavo, who at age 27, suffered a cardiac arrest, that lead to brain damage due to lack of oxygen? Her case went to the Supreme Court because she lacked legal documents that made her wishes clear. No one wants to believe anything bad could happen to them, but it can and often does. You can avoid some of the pain of of this type of situation by executing the proper legal documents.
