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Seniors

Get A Good Night’s Sleep: What Seniors Should Look For In A Bed

August 26, 2009 Seniors

The stresses and strains of life eventually catch up with everyone;  wear and tear takes its toll. Therefore, it is important to get the balance of comfort and support right as a senior. Your furniture, from your favorite armchair to your bed, must match your needs and requirements in order for you to feel the [...]

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Boost Bone Health With Boron And Other Minerals

May 28, 2009 Seniors

About 44 million American men and women suffer from osteoporosis (severe bone loss) or osteopenia (mild bone loss), with women being affected twice as much as men. Each year, at least 1.5 million hip, vertebra, or wrist fractures occur in the United States because of osteoporosis. Although bone mass normally declines after age thirty-five, bone [...]

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Is Your Financial Planner Going To Pay Your Long Term Care Bills?

May 24, 2009 Seniors

I always like to ask my clients, “Will your financial planner be willing to pay your long term care bills, or will they have access to good quality Home Health Care Providers?” Many lawyers and advisers are now reluctant to recommend against Long Term Care Insurance for fear of law suits later on from children, [...]

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Keeping Active As You Age

May 22, 2009 Seniors

Probably the hardest part about staying healthy as you age is keeping active. We all have those days that we feel like doing nothing. We’d like to sit in front of the television and just watch, or sit on the computer all day. We might want to do nothing but stare out the window to [...]

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Osteoporosis-3D Medical Animation

April 22, 2009 Seniors

http://rufusrajadurai.wetpaint.com This is an 3D medical animation video to show what is osteoporosis and how it cause weakness to bone and the effect of osteoblast and osteoclast cells in it.also it shows the later stage and diagnosis of osteoporosis Duration : 0:1:27

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An Apple A Day… Seniors And Nutrition

February 18, 2009 Healthy Eating

Image via Wikipedia Every time you turn on the television or open a magazine, you are confronted about the  ever-growing worldwide problem of obesity. More and more people are unhealthily overweight; there have always been some individuals who have eaten unhealthily, but now the population as a whole now has to consider how our diets [...]

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Safety First: How To Stay Safe In Your Senior Year

February 11, 2009 Seniors

Image by Sailing “Footprints: Real to Reel” (Ronn ashore) via Flickr There is nothing worse than having what you consider to be a silly little accident but paying the price for it over the course of a few weeks. A simple trip over an object that has been left lying around can hurt your back [...]

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Rest Easy In Your Home: Seniors And Security

February 2, 2009 Seniors

Image by cbcastro via Flickr If you watch the news or read the newspapers every day then you will know that crime rates have risen dramatically in most urban, suburban and rural areas in the last ten years. Members of our society perpetrate some heinous crimes, and reading about them is extremely unsettling, especially if [...]

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