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Nutrition Tips for Older Adults It’s never too late to start eating smart. A healthy, well-balanced diet can help your senior loved ones maintain a healthy weight, stay energized and lower the risk of developing chronic conditions, such as osteoporosis, high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. Recents studies also [...]
More Than a Meal on the Menu When is the last time you enjoyed a meal with your aging loved ones? Research shows that seniors who regularly dine with friends and family tend to eat more and make healthier choices. More importantly, most older adults say they feel happier and more fulfilled when eating [...]
Helping Loved Ones With Dementia Get the Nutrition They Need If you’re caring for someone who has Alzheimer’s or a related dementia, you know that encouraging them to eat nutritious meals can be a daily challenge - especially during the middle and late stages of the disease. “We work with many families who are [...]
Five Ways Home Care Can Help Seniors Living with Diabetes Do you have aging loved ones who are living with diabetes? A chronic condition, diabetes affects how the body turns food into energy. It occurs when the pancreases is no longer able to make insulin or when the body can’t make good use of [...]
Five Tips to Help Aging Loved Ones Maintain a Healthy Diet A Balanced Diet is Important to Healthy Aging What’s in your mom’s refrigerator - fresh fruits and vegetables or frozen dinners and string cheese? “Maintaining a nutritious, balanced diet is important to healthy aging, but it can be a struggle for seniors - [...]
Is Your Mom Eating Healthy Meals? When you visited your aging mom over the Thanksgiving holiday, you noticed that she let others do the cooking - which is unusual, because she’s always loved preparing big family meals.Has she lost interest? Is she having trouble remembering or reading the recipes? Is arthritis limiting her ability to [...]
