By: Linda Burhans How do you look and feel your best as you age? Take a look at ten great ways to accomplish this goal: #1 – Stay active If you spend your time sitting around the house watching TV you’ll soon start to feel lousy, so get up and stay active. Go for a...
By: Linda Burhans One Saturday morning last year a woman by the name of Marie came to my support group in Largo, Florida. She was the only person that came that day and like I always say “Who ever is suppose to be there, will.” The woman was very...
By: Cate McCarty At this time of year hauntings are not just in old homes. If you are living with an individual with dementia, you may well be faced with ghosts and imaginings that are convincingly real in presentation. Some forms of dementia are more likely to have...
By: Linda Burhans Seniors are especially vulnerable to an increasing number of scams and fraudulent activities. There are a variety of reasons for this, but the main reason is that scam artists and unsavory people are very skilled at weaseling their way into seniors’...
By: Linda Burhans If you are a caregiver there is a pretty good possibility you did not get a complete and restful sleep last night. Many times caregivers enter my support groups clearly exhausted and sleep deprived. The importance of caring for caregivers cannot be...
By: Bonnie Brown In fact, the holidays can make healthcare even more stressful. Beyond your own health issues, when your family gathers, you may see notable changes in the health of your loved ones, which may set off your warning bells. That makes it doubly stressful....
