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Exercise Helps Us Live Longer and Better

We all know many of the benefits of regular exercise. Regular exercise gives us stronger bones and muscles, a healthier heart, an amped-up immune system, a greater sense of emotional well-being, and even enhances our brain health. ...

Wellness at Active Senior Living Community

Wellness is more than being free from illness. While the absence of illness is one part of being healthy, it doesn’t indicate whether we are in a state of well-being. ...

How to Tell Family You Can No Longer Be Caregiver

Every day, Linda Snyder goes to her mother’s house in rural Pennsylvania, gets her out of bed, gives her breakfast and dresses her. Every night, she returns to put her to bed. Sometimes, when Snyder arrives, her mother will greet her with, “’Oh, it’s you again.’ That doesn’t help,” says Snyder....

Variations in longevity across Europe over past 20 years

Variations in longevity across Europe over past 20 years Wide and stubborn variations in longevity have persisted across Europe over the past 20 years, indicates research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. People can expect to live to a ripe old age in northern Spain, north...

Emotional and physical difficulties among caregivers

Emotional and physical difficulties among caregivers Being a caregiver for an older adult isn’t easy. A new study suggests that family and unpaid caregivers who provide substantial help with health care were more likely to miss out on valued activities, have a loss of work productivity and experience emotional, physical...

Tax Breaks for Caregivers on Presidential Platform

Hillary Clinton- Tax Breaks for Caregivers on Presidential Platform. According to the LA Times, Hillary Clinton proposed a new tax break Sunday for those who care for aging parents and grandparents. The Democratic presidential candidate touted her latest proposal at a town hall-style meeting in this Mississippi River city about 200 miles east...