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Congestive Heart Failure: What is CHF?
What is Congestive Heart Failure? Congestive heart failure, or CHF, is a chronic progressive condition that affects the pumping ability in your heart muscles. When a person has CHF, their heart has difficulty pumping blood out of the heart to other organs in their body. This occurs because the ventricle walls, which are responsible for…
Read MoreWhy Tracking Brain Health is Important for Seniors – Featuring Roberto
Discussing care with aging loved ones is never easy. For many, there is the elephant in the room of cognitive decline. After all, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease every 66 seconds in the United States. Because of this, it is important to track your aging loved one’s cognitive abilities regularly. When to Start…
Read MoreGames to Train Senior Brains
October 13th is National Train Your Brain Day! As one’s age increases, it becomes more difficult for one to remember things, be it short-term memory, long-term memory, or something else. After retirement age, one’s dementia risk doubles roughly every five years. To reduce those risks, the human brain needs a constant workout to maintain good…
Read MoreOctober’s Real Purpose: Breast Cancer Education and Awareness
When most people hear the word October, they usually think of Halloween, oversized sweaters, pretty leaves, and pumpkins. While all these things are true, there is one topic that sometimes does not always come to mind right away: breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Month, and it is a month that many…
Read MoreFeeling Burnt Out? Tips for Tired Caregivers
For the first time in US history, approximately 47 million seniors live in the United States. Every day, more Americans are taking on the role of caregiver for an aging loved one and the need for new caregivers continues to rise in the health care industry. If you are one in 34.2 million caregivers providing care…
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