What Do You Have to Lose?
Are you suffering from any form of dementia, Alzheimer’s or memory loss? Or do you care for someone with these challenges? If so, you have become quite intimate with loss. So what do you have to lose in exploring new options to reverse the loss of your mind or the...
New Life for Caregivers. Part 1
Caregivers come in all ages and are responding to just as wide span of need as they are of circumstances. Are you a caregiver? There tend to be two things all caregivers have in common. The first is that they are in service to someone they love or feel a commitment to...
Evidence That IS CHANGING The Senior Health Care System…For The Better
You have surely heard the term, ‘evidenced based,’ and most probably have a pretty accurate idea of what it means. But do you know exactly what it means? While evidence based has brought us many of the present day health care options, it continues to push us...
Incentives CAN Create a NEW Paradigm for Aging
What would it be like if we were rewarded everywhere we went for making healthy choices? Imagine with me for a moment. You walk into your workplace, an environment that gives you a little bit of stress because of the deadlines you are under, or the relationships that...
Important Connections: Brain, Gut and Immune System
When it comes to health of the brain, you might be surprised to hear that the gut and the immune system are major players! Yes, even though the gut resides far away from the brain, and the immune system seems to be in its own league of influence they are important to...
Defining The Players Of A Healthy Brain
With Alzheimer’s and dementia on the rise it can be empowering for us to understand what is actually happening in the brain when it deteriorates. Why? Because there are choices we can make to help increase brain health for ourselves or our loved ones even in the...
From Cranky to Happy
Have you ever felt there is a little truth to the statement, cranky old man? While no one wants to generalize in a negative way there oftentimes is some reason the phrase has come about in the first place. The statement leads us to wonder, 'Why did it come about...
Honoring The Elder
Many cultures have a custom of honoring those older in community as elders. And elder has a connotation to it that leaves a sense in the mouth of wisdom, life experience, and worthiness of respect because they have made the journey for many years. In this connotation...
What Is Normal Aging Anyway?
This article poses a simple question. But is the question really that simple? How would you answer it- ‘What is normal aging, anyway?’ It seems that one of the advantages of the globalization effects of the internet and technology is the shake up to our ideas of what...
