We live in a noisy world full of machines and equipment. Sometimes the barrage of sound around us is so loud that continued exposure can cause permanent damage to our sensitive hearing mechanism. Whether you’re at a concert, at the shooting range, watching or participating in … [Read more...] about It’s Heck Getting Old: Keep Your Hearing
How to Cope with Losing Friends
Making a friend can happen anytime, anywhere. Bonds are created out of circumstance or common interests. If we live far from our relatives, our friends become just like family and they are our support system. Yet as we grow older we know life doesn’t go on forever and that these … [Read more...] about How to Cope with Losing Friends
5 Ways to Ease Caregiver Tension
Cheryl Hepp Basham, retired project manager for Computer Education Support for JCPS, offers these suggestions for caregivers:• Do the best you can with your loved one with regard to his situation. It’s impossible to know everything at any given time.• Push aside guilty feelings … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Ease Caregiver Tension
Upgrade Your Senses: Taste
Are there ways we can upgrade our sense of taste, which tends to weaken as we age? While there isn’t a lot to be done to recover a lost sense of taste, Sheri Rose, CEO and executive director at The Thrive Center, shared details about one piece of technology that can help a person … [Read more...] about Upgrade Your Senses: Taste
Is Your Loved One Anxious?
Kayla Cook, owner of Caring Excellence, says, “Anxiety in the elderly is usually based on a fear that may be from a false perception or have a real basis. As people age they feel more vulnerable due to their decreased physical strength and inability to care for themselves." Kayla … [Read more...] about Is Your Loved One Anxious?