How to Deal with the Coronavirus as a Caregiver Worrying about your own health during the COVID-19 pandemic is stressful, but the pressure to stay healthy is even greater if you’re a caregiver for a family member or other loved one. Since many older people have other health conditions...
How to Manage Anxiety in a High-Anxiety Era This year has been a rough one so far. Right now, the COVID-19 pandemic has many people feeling intense anxiety, in addition to turning our daily routine and lifestyle upside down. Many things that keep us relaxed like religious gatherings,...
Top 6 Reasons to Get a Second Medical Opinion When confronted with a medical diagnosis, especially one you don’t want to hear, one of your first instincts may be to get a second medical opinion: when another doctor reviews your condition and gives his or her view about the...
Face Masks: A Sense of Purpose During COVID-19 Let me start by saying that I am not a seamstress. I’ve made curtains, pillows, and pads for my dogs’ crates, but my finished products have always looked homemade, with bunchy, sometimes crooked seams and lots of hanging threads. Also,...
Partner Profile: Homestead Village Experience a New Take on Senior Living at Homestead Village Homestead Village is more than an apartment and more than just a place to age: it’s home. This is the place where neighbors become friends, and a sincere sense of...
Partner Profile: Treplus Communities Enhance Your Life by Staying Socially Engaged After 55 By Julie A. Stein, Director of Marketing for Treplus Communities LLC Times have changed, and people are now living longer and more healthily. And as they do, they are looking at...
COVID-19: What to Do If You Think You Have It Right now, any cough might raise the question, “Do I have COVID-19?” However, we’re still in cold and flu season and seasonal allergies might be starting up. How do you know which tickle in your throat is caused by pollen,...
Five Tricks to Make the Isolation Bearable! You’ve cleaned out the kitchen cabinets, bagged up the clothes you don’t wear anymore, read a couple of books, talked for hours on the phone to your friends, watched more television than you care to admit, and even dusted all...
10 Tips for Staying Healthy During the COVID-19 Outbreak Social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine. Most of us didn’t expect to hear these terms used so much this spring. But, suddenly, the world is in the middle of an outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Many...
What Does Home Health Care Do? If you or your loved one is homebound and not able to travel to a doctor’s office for medical tests or therapy, they may take advantage of home health care. Sometimes also called skilled home health services, this refers to...