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Sarah Collins
The Little Guide to Big Changes
Wellness Care Today
Visualize a flower becoming a bud, and then slowly growing into the beautiful flower it is meant to become. This is a great metaphor of the journey of life. Just as a flower reaches its peak of beauty at full maturity, the senior years should be [...]

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Written by Minerva Navarro, M.D.
Published in the Los Altos Town Crier
Soon the holiday season will be over and many of us will start thinking about our New Year’s resolutions. Staying healthy often comes at the top of our lists.
We know what we need to do to take care of ourselves, but sometimes it’s easy to [...]

Thanks to an email from my friend Diane Carbo
2 Golf balls and a Mayonnaise Jar - To all the golf balls in my life.
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy [...]

Shelly Webb
The Elder Care Support Group
It can be tough to come up with gift ideas for senior citizens in your life that aren’t the typical bathrobe and slippers. Here’s how to give a personal gift that will make an elderly person feel special while addressing the unique concerns of advanced age.
1. Gifts of the [...]

The whole social networking scene has become quite the pandemic. Over the long haul, we could realize more casualties as a result of an ever-increasing sedentary public than we have seen with any strand of influenza.

Sonya Mittelman, founder and principal attorney
The Law Office of Sonya Mittelman
Tips for the Caregivers
As we all age, we are facing the inevitable.   Many of you are probably dealing with caring for your parent or other loved one. . As one who   has recently experienced this, I can offer some advice.  Here are my [...]

Article authored by
Sheri Samotin
Life Bridge Solutions
While no two family situations are the same, there are several common scenarios that baby boomers face as their parents come to the point where it is no longer possible for them to live in their own home without assistance. The first is to have the parent move in with [...]

I have discovered the health benefits derived from consuming cranberries. We all know that drinking 8 oz. per day of cranberry juice maintains a healthy urinary tract, preventing infections. But, did you know that cranberries beat out strawberries, spinach, broccoli, organs, beets, and grapes for having the highest ORAC value? ORAC is the oxygen radical absorbance ability of a substance to subdue oxygen free radicals? These are anti-aging! And that’s not all.

I have been following a post on one of my Linkedin groups and felt I needed to repost this excellent reply on the topic from Angil Tarach, director of the Visiting Angels:
Good Morning Lynn,
What caught my attention in your email was Morphine was used in your “mom’s last days”.  I am thinking your mom [...]

Practicing good posture is an essential element of our health. You see, when we let our spine sag, we can develop a postural deviation known as kyphosis, or hunchback. Structural kyphosis is caused by osteoporosis, (the loss of bone mass), or can be an abnormality of the spine. What I’m speaking of is postural kyphosis, which can be caused by poor posture, and weak abs.

The October, 2009 issue of AARP bulletin listed the 50 most prescribed drugs in the U.S. in 2008. At first look, one might scroll through the list and see where the prescriptions that they take fall in the line-up. As I was reading through the list, I saw a pattern emerging; a very disturbing one. I totalled the numbers for prescriptions for the same ailments and came up with the four leading ones:

I hear a lot in my classes,  ”I am afraid to try this working out because my one arm wont go high enough”.  I tell my students “focus on what you can do, and just do what you can, don’t worry about what you cannot do”.
I also add in the two following  bits of theory.
While exercising, [...]

There has been a lot of talk about incentives and stimulus plans. Everything from cars to furniture can be purchased at discounted prices and interest rates. Though nothing new, many companies have implemented wellness incentives to employees, in an effort to lower health insurance premiums.

Breast and cervical cancer have screening methods to detect them. Did you know that there isn’t a screening test to detect Ovarian Cancer? By the time symptoms occur, it is often too late to do anything for a cure. We must make some noise for Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and raise support for ovarian cancer research. We are losing far too many grandmothers, mothers, sisters, daughters, cousins, neices, and friends to this disease

Sheri Samotin
Life Bridge Solutions
Dealing with medical bills and insurance claims can often become a full-time job. The first step to making sure this doesn’t happen to you is to become familiar with all of the details of your coverage. For example, if your insurance has both in-network and out-of-network benefits, you need [...]

Nancy Heinrich
Economic Wellness Works
If you have been told by a health care professional that you have type 2 diabetes, it is normal to feel anxious or uncertain. But you are not alone – almost 10.5 million adults aged 60 and older in the United States have diabetes.
Diabetes is serious, but you can manage it. [...]