Treatment Options for Seniors with Mesothelioma
Older adults diagnosed with mesothelioma have a variety of options when it comes to treatment. The type of care your loved one receives will be determined after a doctor or specialist evaluates him or her. Since each older adult’s diagnosis is unique, treatment will vary on an individual basis. While there is no specific treatment […]
Safe Driving Practices for Seniors
Remember that feeling as a teenager when you first climbed behind the steering wheel, that great exhilaration of being able to go wherever you wanted? The freedom that being able to drive grants us is beyond compare! Nonetheless, once we grow older, many different factors can come into play that affect safe driving practices for […]
How Geriatric Patients Benefits from the Care of a Gerontologist
With most seniors already seeing a variety of doctors, could there be really any benefit to adding yet another? When it comes to a geriatric specialist, the clear answer is a resounding, “Yes!” A geriatrician is board-certified in either internal or family medicine, very much like a primary care physician, but with the additional benefit […]
Safety Tips for Traveling with Someone with Alzheimer’s
After spending a significant amount of time in social distancing and isolation, this summer may lead you more than usual to want to journey to visit family and friends, or even to simply encounter a change of scenery and some enjoyable activities. And if you provide care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s, having a […]
Chronic Disease Management: Top Tips to Help Navigate Chronic Kidney Disease
They are only about the size of your fist, yet they are crucial to your body’s performance. Kidneys work as filters to eliminate waste from the body, but they also control our blood pressure and assist in the production of red blood cells. For those with chronic kidney disease, effective management is vital to prevent […]
Medications for Seniors Can Lead to Adverse Side Effects
Anyone who has taken prescription medication understands that it normally includes an extensive listing of possible unwanted effects to watch for. While prescriptions are, naturally, meant to help us, the harm that can result from these adverse reactions can sometimes outweigh the benefit we receive. For senior loved ones, most of whom take numerous medications, […]
House Modification for the Elderly: Tips to Keep Seniors Safe While Aging in Place
With the majority of older adults deciding to continue to live at home during the course of aging, it is important to complete a comprehensive home assessment to look for and resolve any dangers and ensure those you love stay safe. The best way to accomplish this is to begin outside of the home and […]
Hearing Loss in Older Adults: Signs, Causes, and How to Cope
Isolated. Misunderstood. Excluded. These are only a few of the countless emotions which are common in individuals with hearing loss, who find it difficult to maintain social connections with friends and family members, who struggle to communicate with them. Hearing loss in older adults is fairly typical, for a number of reasons: genetics, a lifetime […]
TBIs in Seniors Often Result from Falls
When you think about a traumatic brain injury (TBI), your preliminary thought might be a sports-related accident, such as a football player crashing head-first into a rival, or possibly a head-on collision in a car accident – something less likely to impact senior loved ones. However, the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in older adults […]
Older Adults and Arthritis: Risk Factors and Management Tips
Impacting 30 million people within the U.S. alone, osteoarthritis is a debilitating and painful condition that results because of the wearing away of cartilage, creating friction within the joints as unprotected bones rub against one another. While it may appear in virtually any joint, it is most common in the hands, hips, knees, lower back, […]