Healthy Winter Tips for Seniors For older folks, winter poses challenges to keeping healthy. With a higher risk for sicknesses plus the frigid weather, having a few tips for your health under your hat will help you solider on. If you are over 65 or have a loved one to look after that is, these…
Keep Your Cool: 7 Ways to Protect Seniors from Heat-Related Health Problems Dehydration, heat stroke, and heat exhaustion are a danger for everyone as the temperatures rise in summertime. But senior citizens are at an even greater risk. Age-related physical changes in the body, chronic health conditions, and medications that most older folks take put…
5 Winter Exercises Seniors Can Do to Stay Active While it’s tempting to stay indoors, cozied up to the fireplace, keeping active is essential for everyone. However, if you’re 65 or over, it’s even more important to keep your body moving even when the temperatures plummet and snow is all around. Don’t use the weather…
Best Health Tips for Seniors During COVID-19 Pandemic For those ages 65 and up, the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic puts you more at risk. That risk becomes even greater if you have certain chronic medical conditions like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and cancer. That’s why it’s so important to protect your health now more…
Rethinking Senior Citizen Care: Beyond the Coronavirus The elderly population is among the most susceptible to dying from coronavirus. Sadly, outbreaks of the virus in nursing homes and care facilities meant that families lost elderly relatives that were near and dear to their hearts. Currently, those residing in senior care facilities are unable to receive…
5 Senior Winter Fitness Ideas to Help You Stay Active The older we get, the more important keeping fit and healthy is. Tempting as it is to stay snug indoors during the winter, not getting your exercise will lead to less flexibility and mobility in your muscles and joints. That can leave you more prone…
Senior Personal Fitness: Why It’s Such a Big Trend Think that personal trainers are only for the young and fit? Think again! The biggest trend for personal training happens to be in the senior sector where the demand for personal trainers is among the highest. One of the reasons seniors are turning to personal trainers…
How Seniors Can Benefit from Physiotherapy Often, people associate physiotherapy with something to be done after an injury. While physiotherapy is indeed beneficial for those that have been in an accident or hurt themselves, it can be a great benefit for seniors in many other ways. If you’re an active adult, here’s why you should…
Very few seniors can still hang with the thrills of rollercoaster rides. That doesn’t mean that summer needs to be a drag though. The hot weather is a perfect time to explore and enjoy your freedom. Besides, there are other ways to get your thrills and make this the summer to remember. Here are some…
Fitness Myths Seniors Need to Stop Believing They say age is just a number, and perhaps you believed it until you started feeling your age. One thing that can help with that is keeping up with regular exercise. It’s certainly a challenge to start and even maintain a regular program for exercise, but the…
