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How to Assess Your Aging Parent's Driving Skills
How to Assess Your Aging Parent’s Driving Skills
At a recent dinner party, I asked my friends what was their number one concern with regard to their parents. It was their aging parents’ driving skills.
“My mother shouldn’t be driving!”
“My dad hid the keys from Mom.”
“If she gets in an accident, God, help us, she could potentially lose everything.”
Most drivers monitor themselves and limit their driving, or even stop driving. Others have…
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#Alzheimer&039;s#driver resources#driver safety#drivers license#driving schools#driving skills assessment#intervention#safe driving#senior driving
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Food and Aging: Caramelization and Oxidative Stress
Food and Aging: Caramelization and Oxidative Stress
Food and Aging: Caramelization and Oxidative Stress Photo by Alexandr Podvalny, Upsplash
Food, at its basic level, is fuel to create energy. And, it is so much more! It is a source of pleasure, a habit, a community event, an emotional vehicle. Good food is vital to our health and well being. Yet the wrong foods can accelerate aging with the effects of caramelization and oxidative stress.
As…
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Aging in Place: Remodel Ideas for Those Looking Forward
Aging in Place: Remodel Ideas for Those Looking Forward
My friend, Lisa Rooney-Zari, a physical therapist, and my husband, Doug Olson, a hospital architect, shared some great tips to keep the special needs of aging in place in mind when remodeling your home. Bathrooms and Kitchens
Grab bars as towel bars. Simply a no-brainer for minimizing falls to multipurpose the bars for safety and storage. Near toilets, in showers, and around tubs. Here is…
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Fun: The Secret Ingredient to Aging Well
Fun Life is for the living. Keep fun, humor, awe, excitement, joy, and creativity as the focus, no matter the trials of an aging body and mind. Sometimes the fun is doing the unexpected. It is easy to feel you’ve done it all by the time you’ve reached some age of significance. Let’s try to capture the fun in the everyday, as well as the bucket list items. Here’s 10 ideas to get the fun…
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Ten Tips for Better Movement at Any Age
How Movement can Improve your Health & Well Being Movementis the key to life! We’ll review ten creative ways to bring movement into your life, whatever your age, whatever your fitness level. Fitness is attainable at any age. Start at whatever level you are and then, add 10% more each week or every other week. In a few weeks time, you will have greatly improved your health and well being. And,…
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Food - The Anti-Inflammatory Diet vs. Oxidative Stress
Food – The Anti-Inflammatory Diet vs. Oxidative Stress
The Anti-Inflammatory Diet vs. Oxidative Stress
In my last post, you learned about the importance of food for optimal health, as well as the havoc sugar causes in diseases such as diabetes. Now I’ll be discussing another cause of advanced aging, oxidative stress, and how anti-inflammatory foods may lessen that stress.
What is oxidation?
Oxidationis removing the electrons from a molecule.…
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#Alzheimer&039;s#anti-inflammatory diet#antioxidants#cardiovascular disease#diabetes#disease#free radicals#minerals#oxidative stress#vitamins
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Food - Healthy Eating for Life
Food – Healthy Eating for Life
FOOD – Healthy Eating for Life Photo by Luke Michael, Upsplash
Food, at its basic level, is fuel to create energy. But, it is so much more! It is a source of pleasure, a habit, a community event, an emotional vehicle. Good food is vital to our health and well being.
It can also be the primary driver of disease, such as depression, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s,…
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Ten Ways to More Freedom for Seniors
FREEDOM
How do we help our loved ones that need more care to feel a sense of freedom? The answer lies in theirs and your beliefs. Our current beliefs may or may not be serving us well.
It may be well intentioned family members, physicians, drug advertisements, or government directives that are influencing our decisions we make every day without thinking critically if it is serving us or our older loved ones best.
Do certain drugs enhance life, or are they are a quick fix that may create other problems?
Can we improve our bodies, optimize our health and enjoy an extraordinary life?
How do we create meaning in the everyday of living, especially when it seems as if our older friends’ lives are contracting?
What benefits would appear if I expanded the options and information to make new choices?
Optimal beliefs that empower individuals include:
Belief in oneself to find solutions
Belief in ones ability to seek enjoyment
Belief in ones ability to achieve results
Belief in ones ability to heal
What does freedom mean?
Freedom is the ability to maintain control over ones’ decisions, such as:
where to live
what to eat
with whom to spend time
how to spend that time.
Our aging companions may need more help, but they still need to have some control over basic decisions.
Here are ten ways to freedom:
1. Stay strong and active. Walk every day, even with the help of walker or a companion. Exercise will increase confidence, clear one’s mind, and strengthen muscles. Plus, when done with friends, it may also increase a feeling of connectedness.
2. Take an active role in your health. Learn how to eat well. Drink plenty of water. Select a health practitioner who will be a partner and a teacher. Make friends for your mental health. See the Resources section for vitamins and supplements.
3. Make a financial plan for the inevitable decline. Pay for the advice of a eldercare attorney. Know your options and have a written plan to share with your loved ones. More resources about finances here.
4. Seek out opportunities to help others. Again, the benefits outweigh any inconveniences. Empowerment. Connectedness. Knowing you are a part of something much larger than yourself.
5. Learn something new. Create new neural pathways to strengthen and expand your brain. Always play golf? Try basketball. Try a new language. Pick out something completely unknown to you or that challenges your hard held viewpoints.
6. Seek out stress reduction techniques, such as deep breathing exercises, or daily meditation. Listening to music or going for a walk in the woods alone can clear the head and create a sense of serenity.
7. Teach someone else how to do something. Know how to wire a lamp? Teach your daughter. Know how to cook? Teach a friend. Great at math or science? Tutor a neighborhood child. How empowering is it to pass on what you know? Very cool!
8. Ask questions about your medications, or suggested tests or treatments. Write them down ahead of time and bring along a helpful advocate. Keep your own medical history and medications list on a Google doc.
9. Clean your own house. Get rid of things, books, clothing and whatever else you’ve collected that aren’t of use anymore. Be an adult and don’t expect your loved ones to do the cleaning.
10. Be grateful for all that you have – waking up everyday, loving others, enjoying the outdoors, eating delicious food. No matter what the circumstances, there is always something or someone for which to be grateful.
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Better Senior Living is about resources for those 50+ years, focusing on health and well being issues.
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New posts include “Ten Ways for More Freedom for Seniors” and “How to Talk About Finances with Your Parents” on my new website http://betterseniorliving.info.
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