Archive for the ‘Janet Shapan’

  • Senior Health | Don’t Miss the Warning Signs of Alzheimers among Family Members
    Senior Living By Jan Shapan: The aging process for many seniors invokes fears of losing mental capacity. The decline in mental fitness often triggers a search for the best research and early warning signs of dementia or the dreaded Alzheimers disease. The early signs of Alzheimers can begin in the 50s which is a surprise to most people but the hardest hit demographic ...
    June 2nd, 2010 at 08:06 am
  • Critical Retirement Advice for Seniors
    Retirement PlanningBy Janet Shapan: The most recognizable fact of becoming a senior citizen is realizing our bodies just won’t perform they way they did in the past. Health conditions that have never surfaced in our lives begin to emerge in our 50s and demand all kinds of monitoring and management. As our growing list of needs and services increase, the good retirement ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 09:05 pm
  • For Seniors | Get Ready to Battle Seasonal Allergies
    Allergy ReliefBy Jan Shapan: Are you one of the millions that suffer from allergies? Are you looking for information on allergy remedies? If you are a chronic sufferer from the seasonal impact of allergies, get the facts regarding allergy remedies that are available today. To effectively treat your allergies, you must be aware of your symptoms and find a remedy specifically ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 09:05 pm
  • Senior Health | 10 Dumb Diet and Food Rules Seniors Can Break
    Diets for SeniorsBy Janet Shapan: Seniors often reach an age when they have the time and money to relax and enjoy life, but find they no longer know how. Our lives are so bound up with rules that inhibit us and numb us out from almost any feeling of joy and happiness. It is difficult for many people to even enjoy a good meal. We are either eating the wrong food, too ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 09:05 pm
  • Vitamin D Confirmed a Winner for Seniors
    Vitamin D and Healh Products for SeniorsBy Jan Shapan: Among the numerous recommended vitamins for senior citizens, vitamin D continues to rank as one of the most important. History has illustrated the value of vitamin D in the constant battles against common colds and with some forms of serious disease such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. But this important vitamin ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 08:05 pm
  • Senior Health | Can Senior Citizens Preserve Memory by Using the Computer?
    Seniors Learning to Use Computers By Jan Shapan: Computer literacy among the senior population above the age of 70+ is still nominal but as the current wave of Boomers move into that age range, computer literacy is expected to jump. And new findings suggest computer literacy may be a positive contributor to overall senior health. Senior citizens that use a computer in ...
    May 14th, 2010 at 08:05 pm
  • Senior Health | Is a Germ Free Home Obsession Worthwhile or Healthy?
    Is a Germ Free Home Healthy? by Janet Shapan : Everywhere I turn in today’s climate, I am assaulted from media and sometimes friends for using the wrong cleaners, using the right cleaners in the wrong way or not using them often enough to avoid disease and other germ-oriented contaminations. Depending on who you listen to, there are now 300+ household cleaning and beauty ...
    April 28th, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Senior Health: Is Hospice Care Right For You or a Loved One?
    Hospice Care By Jan Shapan : There will likely come a time in your life that either yourself or a loved one will be forced to deal with a terminal illness. The first response, of course, is to fight it and try to fix the problem. And we should pursue all avenues of healing. However, intuitively there comes a time when the quality of life becomes more important than the ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
  • Health for Seniors | Aging is a Pain…What Should I Expect?
    Aging Pain By Jan Shapan : Personally, I am facing 60 years of age and feeling some new aches and pains. Do we just close our eyes and tolerate the emerging physical and mental symptoms of aging or is there something we can do? First in doing a little personal searching, I discovered, to no real surprise that some of my aches are not really abnormal but I should take ...
    April 27th, 2010 at 02:04 pm
  • Senior Health: Don’t Let Depression Suck the Life From You
    Seniors Battling Depression By Jan Shapan: For many seniors and elderly people, the loss of mobility, flexibility and the emergence of pain and aches associated with aging bring a certain sadness and despair. This loss of vitality and life purpose is often undiagnosed depression. Some of the signs of depression among senior loved ones can be: ambivalence or indifference ...
    April 15th, 2010 at 08:04 am
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