Give a Caregiver a Break
By Steven Buttice, Founder and President, Living By Your Design, Inc. We are headed into the holiday season; children are thinking of Christmas presents, parents of family gatherings. Even with the joy of the season, we are also a year older and, in some cases, a little less “festive” as we were last year. The […]
Mom Needs Help
By Linda Snyder, Senior Care Advocate, Villas of Hollybrook When you’re a mom with a mother who needs extra help, you may start to feel overwhelmed. With childcare responsibilities, a job, and needing to help your mom out, you may feel stuck in the middle without anywhere to turn. While you want to give your […]
MOVING BEYOND OPIOIDS
Most people experience some kind of pain during their lives. Pain serves an important purpose: it warns the body when it’s in danger. Think of when your hand touches a hot stove. Ongoing pain causes distress and affects quality of life. Pain is the number-one reason people see a doctor. A class of drugs called […]
Mindfulness Matters: Can Living in the Moment Improve Your Health?
At some point in your life, someone probably told you, “Enjoy every moment. Life is short.” Maybe you’ve smiled and rolled your eyes at this well-intentioned relative or co-worker. But the fact is, there’s something to it. Trying to enjoy each moment may actually be good for your health. The idea is called mindfulness. This […]
Holiday Overeating and Dietitian Tips for Quick Recovery
By Lindsay Wiese, RD,LD, Utica Ridge Hy-Vee Registered Dietitian If you haven’t yet conquered the goal of eating less and “everything in moderation” over the holiday, you’re not alone. Don’t give up yet! Rather than settling for feeling sluggish and uncomfortable after a holiday meal, make a new goal to beat post-meal sleepiness and discomfort […]
Diabetes Distress
By M. Kathleen Figaro, MD, MS, FACE Many people with diabetes report feeling overwhelmed by diabetes and not wanting to deal with it. This is actually very common — so common that it has a name: diabetes distress. About 50 percent of people with diabetes have distress symptoms at one point in their diagnosis or […]
In This Together
Submitted by Home Helpers There are moments of realization in everyone’s life. Times when you know things have changed forever and there’s no going back to “business as usual.” For some of us, it’s the recognition that dad or mom isn’t as self-sufficient as he or she once was. This towering figure of protection in your life […]
New Opportunities for Wartime Veterans
Submitted by Richard R. Roller of Pearson Bollman Law The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released new eligibility rules for the VA pension program (often referred to as “Aid and Attendance”), effective October 18, 2018. The VA pension is a tax-free monthly cash benefit for eligible wartime veterans and surviving spouses. What is Aid & […]
Sit, Stay, Run, and Jump!
Submitted by Mississippi Valley Surgery Center Leaping over bars and sprinting through tunnels, Border Collie Tula navigates a challenging obstacle course with ease. Keeping pace with the agile canine is 64-year-old Dawn Dawson-Ecker. The dynamic duo has set their sights on qualifying for the American Kennel Club National Agility Championship in March of next year. […]
It’s Time
Written by Jan Rittmer, Happy Resident at Ridgecrest Village Four years ago, being in our mid-seventies, able bodied, active, and able to make our own decisions, my husband, Roger, and I moved from our long-time home into senior living. We left some things behind reluctantly, but we gladly abandoned the large metaphorical elephant that for […]