Nutrition After Menopause—Be Your Best at Every Age

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By Bruce Young, MD, Scientific Advisory Board member for the Grain Foods Foundation Health care professionals are often asked by their female patients, friends, and family members if nutrition needs to be changed with aging and especially after menopause. For women, every stage of life brings different nutritional needs. To be your best at any […]

Snyder Village—Family Is Everything

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By Alexander Germanis As data from the last census poured in, one statistic surfaced that can boggle the mind: More people have been leaving quiet, small-town life behind and have been migrating to big cities. While cities may provide many opportunities, anyone who has ever lived in or even just visited one knows a metropolis […]

Why Should Seniors Stay Active?

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Submitted by Lutheran Hillside Village Staying active is important for anyone but it’s especially important as people age. While staying active isn’t always easy, it is important as regular activity helps combat health conditions and diseases, maintain weight, and improve mood.  Being active can be made easier when there is a group to join or […]

Recognizing the Need for Memory Care

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By Matt Burg, Sugar Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center Wouldn’t it be nice to have a crystal ball? Or some advice from your future self? To have some way of knowing which decisions are the right ones, and at which time to make them. We always seem to say to ourselves, “If only I knew […]

Fragility Fractures—Not Just Clumsiness

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By Shannon Laesch, APRN, Select Care PLLC One in two women over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture caused by osteoporosis in her remaining lifetime. Despite its prevalence, there are many myths and misconceptions about this “silent” disease. These myths may be a reason why osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated. A fragility fracture […]

Pleasures and Rewards of Walking

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By Sandra Dempsey Post Ron Lavish is familiar to many people in the subdivision where he lives. The slim, well-groomed, agile gentleman is seen walking daily, unless the weather is absolutely not conducive to being outside. By Ron’s standards, that doesn’t happen often, but when it does, he walks in his house, usually in the […]

Taking Steps to Prevent Falls

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Submitted by the Villas of Holly Brook When you’re young, an injury from a fall may sideline you for a few days or weeks, but a full recovery is usually quick. As you get older, the consequences of falls can become more serious, setting up a sequence of events that can have longstanding implications on […]

Apostolic Christian Skylines Salem Memory Care—Peace of Mind

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By Alexander Germanis Thousands of years ago in the Middle East a king known as Melchizedek ruled over a land called Salem. Derived from the Hebrew word for peace, Salem’s full name was Uru-Salem, from which we now get the name Jerusalem, or City of Peace. Perhaps since those Old Testament days has the name […]

It Feels Like It’s Time To Retire

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By Krista McBeath, McBeath Financial Group It’s Monday morning. You want to call in sick… sick of your job. Maybe you’ve been working too long and it’s not the same anymore. You really just want out. But ,you tell yourself you can’t retire yet. Or maybe you can, but should you? There’s nothing wrong with […]

Women, Look Years Younger Without Injections Or Plastic Surgery

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By Kimberly Blaker Regardless of how gracefully we want to handle aging, we often find ourselves making heroic efforts to stave it off, starting in early adulthood. The proof is in that women of all ages (even in their 20s) are spending small fortunes on Botox injections, fillers, and plastic surgery. Also, many who don’t […]