Archive for the 'Aging Parents' Category

Senior Health

Monday, May 16th, 2005

As seniors age and their body starts to go, you quickly realize how body functions are related. As one body parts starts to go, it puts a strain on the other part body part, and pretty soon the remedy to the malady is just going to worsen the health of the senior.

Many older people [...]

Helping Others

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Have you ever felt the desire to use a skill you have to help or teach others? Or have you tried to teach self-obsessed teenagers that there is another world out there where they may be able to put their skills to use to help out someone other than themselves? There are plenty of volunteer [...]

Aging Parents in Hospital

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

I just talked with a friend who was complaining to me about the treatment his aging mom was receiving in the hospital. Seems her arms were black and blue from the nurses trying to take her blood samples—they just couldn’t seem to find a vein. One night no nurse would answer the buzzer when [...]

Dementia in an aging parent

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

Things get crazy when your aging parents lose their marbles. I received a call from an old friend who was describing her fate in dealing with her mom and her memory loss. The problem is excruciating because one minute her mom would be there conversing with her and offering motherly advice and the next [...]

DHEA can help midlife depression

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Popping a few DHEA pills a day has shown to be 50% successful in overcoming mid-life depression, according to a recent study. The pills were given in 100 mg to 150 mg doses a day to a group of men and women age 57 to 67 who had major or minor depression of moderate severity. [...]