Handwashing Awareness Week: An Easy Step Towards Senior Health

Washing your hands applies at so many points in the day. National Handwashing Awareness Week comes to highlight the importance of this simple, yet essential aspect of hygiene.   Handwashing Awareness Week This important awareness week, always falls in the first full week of December. It cousin, Global Handwashing Day  was inaugurated in 2008 by…

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World Antibiotics Awareness Week and Seniors: Use Antibiotics with Awareness

It is World Antibiotics Awareness Week and seniors and professionals are taking a refresher. The topic is antibiotic resistance. Let’s begin with a quiz question. What is the connection between “30%” and “use of antibiotics”? The answer is: the CDC says that at least thirty percent of the antibiotics prescribed for patient outside of hospitals…

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Senior Health Tips for the Winter Season: Decongestants and Alternatives

Winter is really here, with cooler weather and risk of respiratory infections. Choosing a good decongestant is, for many seniors, one of the first health purchases of the winter season. Senior health tips for the winter season abound, as every person wants to go through the winter in good health. Curing infectious disease often becomes…

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B12 for a Healthy Senior Immune System

How do you get a healthy senior immune system? Obviously, the answer is not going to be any one approach or food. Having a healthy immune system, as far as it is in our hands, comes from having a well-rounded approach. This means, eating well, sleeping sufficiently, exercising as your doctor recommends and knowing how…

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Playing “Hot and Cold” with Arthritic Joints in Seniors

When you experience arthritis pains in a joint, there are times when you might prefer to relieve it with a heat pack and others when you would use a cool pack. If arthritic joints in seniors could speak for themselves, they would tell us which they prefer… but we will have to understand for ourselves.…

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Senior Health Tips for Leg Circulation

The circulation system is a complex system serving the entire body. In looking at senior health tips for leg circulation, you need to take into account that condition of the senior circulation system. The volume of blood becomes less as you age. Physically the veins and arteries can change, becoming narrower and harder. It also…

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