All our lives we have been told that we need to make sure we get enough sleep. Getting seven to eight hours of sleep ensures our bodies are rested, and we have energy to get through the day ahead. Not only is getting sleep important to our physical being, but studies done by the American […]
Life changes after we reach fifty. Women go through menopause, there is less bone mass, and an increased risk of cancers and heart disease occur in both men and women. Fortunately, there are ways to gauge your wellness after the age of fifty and ways to stay healthy that keep the aging process from accelerating. […]
As we age, our abilities change. It takes longer to walk from one room to another, we become more likely to forget why we walked to the other room, and there's a massive shift in family dynamics. As children often transition from cared for to caregiver, it becomes difficult. There are all types of issues […]
Dementia is an exciting topic because it is an umbrella of diseases. This is a broad category to describe several other groups of conditions under the category of dementia. It is categorized as forgetting things and losing memory. However, it does go more in-depth than that. Many times, our older family members start forgetting things, […]
Few of us want to live forever, but many of us do at least want to live until we’re 100. It sounds like a good age to reach, and moreover it means that we have plenty of time to do the things we really want to do. Reaching 100 is not easy, though. Sometimes a […]
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, around 5.3 million Americans currently have Alzheimer’s disease. Worryingly, there is no sign of this number lowering anytime soon. There still exists no known cure for this debilitating disease, while preventative measures continue to be scarce. However, while preventative measures are certainly scarce, there are still adjustments you can make […]
The goal of wellness today goes deeper than the hunt for a healthier body; it also includes the search for a healthy mind. In fact, science shows that physical health factors such as diet and physical exercise also correlate with cognitive health. Cognitive wellbeing covers normal brain and executive function, depression regulation and other mood-related […]
