Elder Care Cafe

Welcome back!Rheumatoid arthritis is a debilitating and devastating illness, but you can do some things to reduce the pain and fatigue, including developing a proper diet plan. For example, fatty foods can exacerbate the effects of rheumatoid arthritis as can foods that promote weight gain – sugars and breads. Trial and error might be in [...]

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Osteoporosis is likely to affect men over 70 and women over 50 and can result in serious and life-changing fractures if not treated. Osteoporosis occurs when calcium and phosphate leave the bones and are reabsorbed in the body, leaving the bones thinner and weaker. Osteoporosis in women is sometimes caused by an estrogen shortage during [...]

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If you’ve recently been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, you may be feeling isolated and frustrated. Osteoarthritis can drastically upturn your lifestyle by making you feel like the disease is running you and that you’ve lost control. There are ways to manage the pain and restrictions that come with this debilitating ailment – and the first step [...]

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A diagnosis of glaucoma can be devastating to hear. Glaucoma is the name of a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve. You can lose your vision when this nerve becomes damaged. People with the disease will first notice the loss of their peripheral or side vision. If left untreated the vision loss can [...]

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One of the main reasons that people develop cataracts is the aging process, but they can also occur if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, are a smoker, drink too much alcohol, have a family history of cataracts and numerous other medical problems. The first symptom of cataracts is usually that your vision is hampered [...]

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Macular degeneration is a chronic eye disease usually associated with aging, and in fact is the leading cause of severe vision loss in people over 60. Macula is the tissue just inside the back of your eye and is about the size of a pencil eraser. Macular degeneration occurs when the small central portion of [...]

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There are a couple types of depression that may show themselves in today’s economic times. Short-term depression occurs in most all of us at some time or other in our lives, but severe depression is more serious and may require some type of medical care or intervention. Severe depression is when the feelings become so agonizing [...]

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The economic decline over the last couple of years in the United States, with its accompanying number of people who have lost their jobs, their lifestyles, and often their homes, reminds me how many people could also be struggling with depression. Unfortunately, the older people are when enduring these life-changing losses, the more likely they will [...]

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Although our ability to taste may change as we age, tasting is still one of the most pleasurable senses we have. That enjoyment should continue into our senior years. The ability to taste helps us enjoy eating and drinking, and aids in determining whether a food is good or bad for us. Sometimes when aging [...]

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According to three recent studies, certain life style changes can help prevent the brain decline that is the forerunner of Alzheimer’s disease. Improving living and dietary habits such as drinking lots of green tea, engaging in plenty of exercise and increasing the amount of vitamin D in the body all play a part in slowing [...]

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While today’s article is more likely directed to teens and young adults than it is to the elderly, there are a number of baby boomers who should also pay close attention to this information. Exposure to loud noise over a period of time is one of the most common causes of permanent hearing loss. Because it [...]

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Unfortunately, hearing loss cannot be reversed, but you can often boost your hearing with special aids or treatments. Hearing loss due to aging is common and heredity can also be a factor. Blockages from earwax can cause a certain amount of hearing loss that prevents you from hearing sounds. Ear infections and bone growth or [...]

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Although over 100,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year, the majority of people who develop the disease have no known risk factors. While the exact cause of colorectal cancer is not known, there are a number of risk factors that figure into your susceptibility to the disease. Colon cancer [...]

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For the last couple of weeks we have written a number of posts regarding how to lower the risks of having a heart attack. I realized today we hadn’t discussed what a heart attack is and how we can know we are having a heart attack. Normally we think of someone having a heart attack [...]

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A diagnosis of diabetes impacts a person’s life in many ways. My father was diagnosed with diabetes in 1990 and found he needed to make a number of changes in his life. Looking back over the last few years prior to his diagnosis we found that he had started to develop diabetes, but we didn’t [...]

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