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Home Blood Pressure Monitor
Following up on Dr. Leslie Kernisans’ article last week on blood pressure guidelines for senior citizens, this week she explains why she feels a home blood pressure monitor is the most important piece of home medical equipment we can have.
Kaiser Family Foundation/New York Times article on rising health care costs.
As you will see, the headline of this article says it all. As direct and as hard to read as it is, it provides information that many of us need as health care costs continue to rise dramatically. To repeat our basic premise in publishing this newsletter, the point is not if are we healthy enough to live a lot longer or if we even want to. The point is, what if we do. It comes back again to being able to live our lives on our terms as we age.
Tips for caregivers and their family members on advanced care planning and health care decisions.
The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institute on Health, provides valuable information so caregivers and care receivers are prepared for any eventuality.
And One More Thing
Food As Medicine (Also known as Food Is Medicine). As the world is overwhelmed with diet related chronic disease, this newer niche is gaining traction at all levels, economically and as a viable health care treatment. The American Society for Nutrition offers a thorough review of what Food as Medicine is and how we can benefit by adopting this mindset.
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