Tell someone everyday that you love them. Don’t wait for some external provocation. Initiate it yourself. Be generous in your exclamations. Be thoughtful in your generous sharing of love. You and whomever you share this experience with will be enriched by it. Even if you don’t receive feedback right away, don’t give up. Keep this as your top priority all year long.

Communicate with the people in your life who have been and continue to be special and important to you. When this year ends, don’t end it with regrets. Choose those whom you know will be moved by your remembering them. If they don’t reciprocate, that’s okay. It is your move that counts.

Identifying Health Problems in Seniors Mental and emotional problems come in many varieties in senior citizens.  Age-related health issues only increase the list of problems the elderly experience.  Thankfully, there are usually signs and symptoms you can watch for to identify when your elderly loved one has health issues that need to be addressed. These [...]

Seniors Learn About Superfoods Superfoods are those foods found in nature with high antioxidant levels, calorie sparse and nutrition dense.  Learning to use them in meals as well as baked items helps senior citizens add them to their daily food intake.// So what are examples of some superfoods?  Most experts on the Internet agree on [...]

Strange Coincidences for Victims of Breast Cancer The incidence of breast cancer continues to be a major health concern for women of all ages, and particularly senior women.  We are concerned not only for ourselves, but for our daughters and grand-daughters.  And although men are not immune to breast cancer, their risk is considerably less [...]

Identifying activities which keep you busy as you age will be one of the ways to safeguard your good health. The cliche,” so long as I keep my health,” is a daily prompt for doing so. It is both amazing and disheartening to experience declines in health conditions. They come, often with little warning. However, they also come because we don’t make appropriate choices and decisions to try to keep our good health intact.

Lacking an exercise discipline is probably the major and primary contributor to health issues. Certain tendencies. e.g. pain and aches which come from arthritic conditions, seem to compel us to move toward a chair instead of an exercise machine. Rationalizations are rife for not doing the things that may give us a better body and frame of mind for daily activity. Once the pattern is set, it becomes more and more difficult to reverse the trend. Every time one feels better and slacks off

Among the challenges that face us as we age are some which place limits on our independence. It is troubling and distressing to come to the moment when some of our independent behaviors are compromised. Clearly, we don’t like it, but adjustments must be made.

Those challenges which confront us, as we age, ordinarily have to do with physical dysfunctions. Mobility is a common one. Bad knees, hips, ankles which are the result of use, injury, and longevity come to the fore and place handicaps on us. Using a cane or walker is likely advised. Surgeries are often entertained, with varying degrees of success. An auxiliary difficulty that merges with handicapping conditions is one’s sense of self confidence. Fear of falling creates a need to be alert to carelessness, clumsy moves, and an appreciation and respect for your environment.

Senior Citizen Journal has received several requests to ‘explain Medicare’.  We’ve taken a look at the resources on the Internet, and will take a stab at an explanation here today.  Although a number of countries have Medicare programs, this discussion will be limited to the program in the United States.// Explain Medicare Medicare is a [...]

Practical Suggestions to Avoid the Flu Every year in the last three months, seniors are reminded to get our flu shots and to do what we can to avoid contracting the viruses that cause influenza.  Because of age and increasing physical vulnerability, senior citizens are more at risk for problems developing if we get the [...]

What You Can Do to Protect Yourself Avoiding drug reactions is necessary for senior citizens to protect themselves and their good health.  Patricia Barry writes for AARP regularly, and offers seniors a lot of good advice about health issues.  In the September, 2011, AARP Bulletin, she has an excellent article on The Side Effects of [...]

Depression in Senior Citizens Estimates suggest that a million seniors age 65 and over experience major depression.  Five million more have symptoms of depression that are bad enough to seek treatment.   The problem with depression in the elderly is it is often not diagnosed and therefore not treated.// Symptoms of depression in seniors include [...]