Sharpen your pencils
Sharpen your pencils, Sharpen your mind! What’s black and white, and healthy for you? A crossword puzzle! What was once just a great Sunday afternoon pastime has now been shown to produce real benefits for our cognitive health. In addition to being fun, the top three reasons why you should...
Nutrition
Changing Diets as We Age Whether we’re 8 or 80, a healthy diet is a key to a healthy life. Maintaining the proper balance of all the food groups keeps our bodies functioning at peak efficiency. As we age, our nutritional needs change. Luckily, we can keep our bodies fine-tuned...
Memory Assessment
Is It Forgetfulness or Something Else? We’ve all lost our keys, or forgotten to take the garbage out. Everyone gets into a bind when they can’t remember the name of a person they met last week, or why they walked into the bedroom just now. Our lives are busy, we’ve...
Healthy eating
Making good diet choices With all of the diet and nutritional ads in the media these days, it’s difficult to know just exactly what you should and should not be eating to stay healthy. Lining the grocery shelves are labels screaming gluten free, diary free, nut free, soy free, grain...
Flu Signs You Can’t Ignore
It is almost impossible to turn on the TV, or open a magazine, and not see the headlines ‘Worst Flu Season Ever”. Currently rampant in all 50 states, this year’s flu season started earlier, is lasting longer, and has been responsible for more deaths than any recent year. As of...
Exercise Tips
Exercise Tips Embracing Fitness – Changing our Internal Dialogue We all know that a balanced fitness program is important to maintain, but how many of us really do it? Between our busy lives and the daily aches and pains, we associate with aging, going to the gym slips further and...
Elder Law
Elder Law – Specializing in you! Under the category of ‘there really is something for everyone’, I was pleasantly surprised a few weeks ago when I stopped by to visit my family attorney. I knew that her practice had lawyers specializing in family law, divorce law, criminal defense, civil law...
Elder Abuse
Elder Abuse – Spot the Warning Signs It’s a topic no one wants to discuss. It’s a problem as prevalent as child abuse or spousal abuse What affects all races and genders. A report by the National Center on Elder Abuse estimates that nearly 10% of the elderly population suffers...
Cold Weather Tips
Stay Warm When It’s Cold 2018 certainly started with a bang! Or maybe more like a frozen popsicle! Temperatures across the country have plummeted to record lows; even our good friends in Jacksonville, FL saw snow! It’s enough to make a person want to huddle down under some warm blankets...
Bring on the Spring!
Gardening is my happy place. Give me a plot of dirt, my trowel, and some little seedlings and I am as happy as a tick on a blue hound! And though working in the garden is emotionally uplifting, as I age it’s getting a little harder physically. My back gets...
