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With spring ending in a month or two, temperatures will start going up and everyone will start heading out. Before taking an entire day off to explore and spend your days outside, make sure to know your limits. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are two things caregivers and patients need to watch out for as they try to enjoy the summer heat. Compared to other age groups, seniors are hit harder by the heat. In 10 years from 1999 to 2009, approximately 40 percent of heat-related deaths were adults over 65 years old. As one ages, so does the body’s ability to regulate temperatures decline, therefore, their natural cooling processes also become more difficult. Seniors do not sweat as much and fat storage also changes, which makes heat regulation more complicated.  Continue Reading ...

When the days are getting longer and the weather’s getting warmer, what better thing is there to do aside from gardening? It is an activity one can consider to be holistic, as it helps nurture multiple facets of one’s well-being. Most people garden for the fresh produce, but unbeknownst to them, they are also harvesting the physical, mental and social benefits that gardening brings. Gardening can give you a serious aerobic exercises with all the movements and switching around that helps you work on your strength and flexibility. In fact, if we can even narrow down each activity when you garden that resembles the same exercises you do in the gyms you go to. Mowing, raking, and digging can be alternatives to cable exercises that work your arms and shoulders. Gardening also involves some lifting that may be good for your back muscle and quads. Weeding by itself involves squatting that works out your bottoms. It can also be great for your back if you weed while on your hands and k

New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services estimates that fraudsters steal more than $36.5 billion from seniors in their 2016 study. Losses can go up to $1.5 billion in New York alone. These financial losses are just the tip of the iceberg, the worst part is the aftermath of such cases. Mark Lachs from the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine of Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital found that seniors that have been abused--financial in nature or not--are more prone to earlier mortality that it can be considered a “public health crisis”, thus, making it all the more important to be aware of fraudulent acts against seniors and making sure that your loved ones are just as well-informed as you are. Below are the two most common fraudulent activities targeting seniors. Continue Reading ...