As always, we will continue to post articles, videos and interviews that will connect our subscribers with relevant, valuable information. Our bodies are a gift and we will do our best to provide information that will help all to get and stay healthy and live their lives to their fullest.

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Table of Contents

• Feature Article

• Care Receivers

  • Nutrition

  • Movement

  • Wellness

• Caregivers

  • Nutrition

  • Wellness

• Both Care Receivers and Caregivers

  • Wellness

  • Aging In Place

• And One More Thing

• Disclaimer

Feature Article

McKinsey Health Institute has a survey that 21,000 people 55 years old and older, from 21 different countries participated in. It measured the participants attitudes regarding aging and how they viewed different aspects of it. There is a lot of information here that can give us perspective on how we want to view our later years. It is lengthy, but very interesting.

Read Survey Here

Care Receivers

Nutrition

Registered Dietitian Grace Guthrie has an article here that was published on The Geriatric Dietitian website, that has guidance for us regarding calorie consumption. The article features recipes with high caloric intake, but she provides information about all levels. While over eating may be an issue for some of us, many do not get enough calories daily and this will help with that. This is another excellent newsletter. The menu on the right column has a lot more information for us as well.

Read Article Here

Movement

Our friend Meredith of Senior Fitness with Meredith has another HIIT workout for us this week. The last one we featured was for beginners. This is for those in the intermediate category. It is 16 minutes and uses light weights. Again, let Meredith guide and do the best you can. There is no need to force the issue.

Dr. Jo has a 20 minute video for us today with stretches to address knee pain, something many of us deal with as we age. Pick out the exercises in the video you feel are best for you and get your knees feeling better in no time.

Wellness

Yesterday, Wednesday, April 16, was National Healthcare Decisions Day. Another friend and frequent contributor to our newsletter with excellent information, Dr. Leslie Kernisan, has “5 Questions To Answer For Easy End of Life Planning” to help with these important decisions. As always, Dr. Kernisan is very thorough and provides valuable information here. We post quite a few of her articles here but I would also highly recomment subscribing to her newsletter for yourself or a loved one or friend who could benefit from it.

Read Article Here

Caregivers

Nutrition

From the Healthline website and Katey Davidson, Registered Dietitian, very good advice in one place for us, on how to eat as we get into our 50’s and 60’s. Some of this information we may know already, but this is compiled in one place by a dietitian for us to refer to as we needed.

Read Article Here

The American Heart Association has get moving tips for caregivers. There is some good guidance here for caregivers to take care of themselves physically. As we have discussed before, from anectodal evidence, it does not take long for someone in the caregivers role to lose their level of fitness. Also, again, there is more good information and articles listed in the right hand column for caregivers.

Read Article Here

Wellness

Northwestern Medicine helps with planning for becoming a caregiver and what to expect. Some of this information might be repetitive, but it is good preparation for those who might be in this role in the future.

Read Article Here

Both Care Receivers and Caregivers

Wellness

Dr. Chris Voirin of Mindful Motion Physical Therapy of Oak Park, IL, has an excellent article and video here that suggests the use of meditation to enhance your recovery from pain and discomfort. Dr. Chris speaks of changing our mindset regarding pain which can change our experience with it.

Read Article Here

Going in a different direction now, an article from the newsletter Healthcare Brew, that discusses the status of digital thereapeutics. Some of it is pretty technical but it gives us an idea of the future of healthcare and how it will be delivered to us. This industry is changing daily and it doesn’t hurt to have some idea of what is going on behind the scenes. This picture may not be as far off as we think.

Read Article Here

Dementiia care services from Rush University Hospital in Chicago. This is not an advertisement for Rush, just highlighting some of the services available to us if we feel we may need some help or a loved one or friend does. If you see you a service that is of interest, if you don’t want to contact Rush, contact your own provider and see what they offer. I acted early when I noticed some symptons of dementia and reached out to my primary care provider and she connected me with specialists to help me. While I am not completely out of the woods, so to speak, I feel the condition is under contral.

Read Article Here

Aging In Place

The Cleveland Clinic Has aging in place tips and information here along with links in most of the sections for more detailed information. Like a lot of the information we post on AIP, this is good information to archive for when it is needed.

Read Article Here

And One More Thing

This is a report from the American Hospital Association titled “Costs of Caring” that is primarily geared towards the hospital industry but has ramifications for all of us. The incentive and need to get and stay healthy and in our own homes is increasing all the time. Here is the first paragraph of the introduction of the report:

“Hospitals and health systems have been at the forefront of a major transformation while at a crossroads of increasing demand for higher acuity care and deepening financial instability. Persistent workforce shortages, severe fractures in the supply chain for drugs and supplies, and high levels of inflation have collectively fueled hospitals’ costs as they care for patients 24/7 (see Figure 1). At the same time, hospitals’ costs have been met with inadequate increases in reimbursement by government payers and increasing administrative burden due to inappropriate commercial health insurer practices.”

There is only on thing we can control in this situation and that is our own behavior.

Read Report Here

Disclaimer

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