Stay Healthy. Stay Home. Issue 90.

Care Receivers Caregivers Nutrition Movement Wellness Aging In Place And One More Thing

Author

Thomas Farmar
April 24, 2025

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

From Becker’s Hospital Review, comments from nine chief financial officers of hospital groups from around the country. As the comments suggest, they are in a period of uncertainty. Aside from the basic reasons that we would rather live our lives in our own homes or in circumstances we choose, this kind of information is all the more reason for us to get and stay healthy.

Care Receivers

Movement

Today Meredith, of Senior Fitness With Meredith, has a 10 minute, beginner level, video that is a full body workout that helps address arthritis or inflammation. Many of us seniors deal with these issues and, as Meredith suggests, starting our day with this workout will go a long way to help us feel much better as the day goes on.

Vertigo. Physical Therapist, Dr. Jo, has a short video here to help us deal with vertigo. I go through periods where this is an issue for me and this is very helpful. This video is early Dr. Jo and has almost 6 million views. Please don’t tell Dr. Jo about my “early” comment.

Nutrition

Swedish, a health care provider in the Seattle, WA area, that is part of the St. Joseph Providence network, has an article here titled “Ultra Processed Foods and Your Health”. We read and see alot about ultra processed foods, but this is more excellent information that can help us adjust our diets, and, our shopping habits. Also, there are some links at the bottom of the article to more nutrition related information.

Wellness

Gerontologist, Dr. Leslie Kernisan, has a video here for us that is an interview with Dr. Cara Pelligrini, MD, director of Cardiac Electrophsiology at the San Francisco VA. which contains valuable information about Bradycardia, a medical term for a heart rate that is slower than normal, usually less than 60 beats per minute, and pacemakers. It is estimated that 3 million Americans live with a pacemaker, 70% of them over the age of 65. The Doctors advise on what symptoms we should be looking for and how to go about addressing them with our healthcare providers.

Aging In Place

This is some great information about Aging In Place from Habitat For Humanity. In the article, they discuss how to connect with a local HFH organization and what is necessary to work with them to help you age in place. This is another valuable source that is worth looking into.

Caregivers

Movement

Walking. From the Today’s Caregivers site, some information about the importance of walking for caregivers, both physically and mentally. It is Spring time and summer is coming soon and we can get out into the fresh air more often now. I know from my experience, sometimes taking a 15-20 minute break and going out for a walk can be a great boost to my energy and focus.

From the Cook For Your Life site, some recipes for caregivers so they can eat healthy and stay that way. This is an excellent site and if you checkout Recipes and Resources on their menu there is a lot of very good information.

Wellness

Three articles here under Wellness in this issue for Caregivers from a variety of sources.

From the Mayo Clinic, some excellent informaton on stress management, obviously an important topic for caregivers.

Next is an interesting web site by Pamela D. Wilson that has a lot of information for caregivers. Like much if the information we post, this may be a good one to archive for when you might need it in the future.

From The University of California San Francisico, an article titled “Self Care for Caregivers”. Again, information we can’t get enough of.

Both Care Receivers and Caregivers

Wellness

A couple of activities that care receivers and caregivers can do together. The first is from an interesting site, Healthwell, which again has a lot of good information for caregivers.

From the Happier At Home site, six activities care receivers and caregivers can do together.

An interesting article here that says seniors want telemedicine as an option to go along with in person doctor visits. This article is from a couple years ago and, while seniors may feel the same way, I have seen stories that say some providers are going away from telemedicine. If you are interested in it, check with your provider and find out the status with them.

And One More Thing

This is an interesting article from Arosa, an organization that provides home care services. They are in 13 states, with 3 locations in Illinois. This is somewhat of a bad news, good news article, in that they list some demographic changes coming in the near future that highlight the growth in the number of senior citizens turning 65, while at the same time the demographics for caregivers will be shrinking. Along with this, though, they discuss new methods of technology that are helping senior citizens in many ways and the same in the development of new health care solutions. This article is dated by a few years but the information is still relevant and the demographic changes they talk about are right in front of us now.

Disclaimer

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