25 Fantastic Ideas for Keeping a Dementia Patient Engaged and Entertained
Dealing with dementia is difficult for everyone involved. Fortunately, with advances in medical science, there are excellent ways to treat and engage with dementia patients. With some trial and...
Telehealth for Seniors: The Doctor Will See You Online
Sometimes it can be challenging to get a clinic appointment. It can be even more challenging for seniors to get the medical care needed for mobility or transportation problems. Telehealth for...
Caring for Your Bones as You Age
We’ve all seen bent over little old ladies, spines almost folded in two, walking gingerly, slowly, down the street. But how does that happen? It’s important to remember that bones are a bit like the...
Dementia Caregiver: Taking Care of Yourself
Caring for someone with dementia is a stressful and exhausting situation - even more so if the person with dementia is a relative or loved one. It is a 24-hour, nonstop position of great...
Benefits of Telehealth for Geriatric Care
In the modern age of digital technology, many may assume that the older generations cannot keep up and that they cannot adapt to new forms of communication. However, in general, this is simply...
Dementia Caregiver Support Resources
People don't like to talk about the mental decline of the elderly because it reminds them that such issues could affect them in the future. While Alzheimer's is the major scare, common dementia is...
Antibiotics Don’t Always Treat Agitation
It’s been busy out there. I’ve heard a lot about people blaming behavior on bladder infections. Well, sometimes, but all I see is that elders going to the emergency room for agitation often come out...
The Power of Music
Original post date: 11/20/2015 Can something usually intended for leisure be combined for therapy? Music is proving to be extremely helpful in medicine by providing behavioral and emotional support...
The Meds Matter: Adverse Drug Reactions
Original post date: 1/4/2017 Adverse drug reactions are an all-too-common cause of hospitalization for elders. Almost half of Americans age 65 and older take five or more medications daily* and many...
The Cost of Being an Elder
Original post date: 12/10/2015 In a time when American pharmaceutical companies are buying the rights to old medications such as morphine, colchicine (for gout- renamed Colcrys and charging $7 for a...
Delirium: What is it and How is it Different from Dementia?
Delirium is a sudden and severe brain function change that causes a person to appear confused or disoriented or to have difficulty maintaining focus, thinking clearly, and remembering recent events....
Your Brain on Gratitude
It's been a year. We've all had terrible things to face. It might be financial distress as our industry shuts down because of the pandemic. It might be the loss of a loved one to COVID-19. The...
Vascular Dementia—The Problem Most Don’t Know About
Everyone has heard of dementia. And everyone worries about dementia. At age 60, 10 percent of us will have dementia. By age 80, 40 percent of us will. Dementia is damage to the brain, just as heart...
Create Your Own “Blue Zone” And Live To 100
Every so often, people will start to get excited about a small town where people routinely live to be 100. That town might be on the Japanese island of Okinawa, or the mountains of Sicily, or in a...
Beware Of Internet Scams
Alas, grifters have always been with us. Just think of the saying, "If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you!" That saying has its roots in a con more than a century old: George...