Before a senior reaches a point where he or she is all mellow and embraces a come-what-may attitude, they will go through a phase when emotions run wild – some seniors don’t even get pass it! Young ones should understand that an aging body undergoes tremendous changes – at a very fast rate, at that – that these changes have become harder to accept especially when dealing with other non-age-related [...]

Indeed home safety is important, however, when caring for a senior suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, it can get doubly important since you have to anticipate situations that are usually not normal in a household. It can get a little stressful especially during your first few weeks on the job and quite frustrating too. To alleviate stress and prevent emergency situations from happening as well, you need all the help you [...]

I hate to break this to you, my fellow seniors, but there is no getting around exercising. You just have to do it. No amount of sauna sweating sessions can help you achieve the full benefits of exercising, nor those designer exercise-replicating devices you see on TV. However, the beauty of exercising is that you don’t have to spend too much on anything and thinking of all those health benefits [...]

We all know how bad smoking can get. If it is not so bad, then we won’t find ourselves guiltily smoking a cigarette in hidden corners of our houses or trying to keep a straight face when found right? Smoking at any age is a no-no, more so if you are a senior whose body is at greater risk of having age-related diseases that are usually fatal, if not, really [...]

Between family obligations, your lifelong obsession, and whatever is keeping your hands off your weekend relaxation, weekend off – and plan for actually having one – sounds more and more of a privilege than a right. It should not be as a study showed that we need our weekends to choose whatever we want to do and leave “working” to weekdays. Professor Richard Ryan did a study relating psychology and [...]

If there’s one thing we, seniors, avoid the most, it would be falls and slips as we all know the health implications that come with it. However, as we age, it gets a little harder to avoid falls and slips considering those several factors which might lead to a fall or a slip are the exact same things we can’t do without. I, personally, am conscious of my surroundings and [...]

Seniors have been living long enough to distinguish a fad from a real cause. I have had my share of fads, I should know, I was once a flower baby—a hippie, if you call it that—and I am not an ounce ashamed of it. My last fad would be the cleansing diets or liver flushing for some, in an attempt to adapt a somewhat healthy lifestyle, however I was quick [...]

In observance of Easter Sunday, I am giving you amazing egg facts and some good reasons why you should enjoy them today! •    What to know if an unassuming egg sitting inside your fridge is already rotten or not? Dip it in a glass of water. If it sinks, it is still good to eat, if it floats, it is already rotten. •    Eggs are good for your eye sight. [...]

Since you are starting with—or thinking about—low sodium diet, I would assume that it has something to do with hypertension or managing your blood pressure. If you are a senior or nearing the golden age, it is an already given fact that you will need adjustments with your diet as not every type of food can be accepted by your body anymore. Not everything can be digested and absorbed by [...]

Foodborne illnesses are physical conditions and illnesses you are most likely to get when you consume bacteria, virus, or parasite-contaminated food. These conditions are also called as food poisoning although symptoms are not always similar to that of a person being poisoned. However, seniors, being the immune-impaired, must always make sure that the food they eat is safe for them. As you age, your body may find it hard to [...]