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Injuries Caused by Falls
While not a very typical health risk for younger people, due to the fact that their bones are much stronger and much less prone to fracturing due to an injury, the older you get – the more careful should you be about falling. Just to get you glimpse of the situation at hand, each year, 2.5 million people aged 65 and older are brought to an emergency department treatment, with falls and bone fracturing being the leading reasons, according to the CDC. That’s more than any other age group. And, one-third of people who go to the emergency room for…
Read MoreOral Health Tips for Senior
While taking some good care about your dental health should be an essential part of your daily routine at any age, (simply because prevention costs much less than the dental treatment), some age groups are more vulnerable to risks than others. Americans aged 65 and over should have a special level of care for their oral health, due tot a reason that with age your mouth tends to become dryer and cavities are more difficult to prevent, so proper oral health care, including regular dental checkups, should be a senior healthcare…
Read MorePreventing & Treating Shingles
I am sure that anyone can still recall that bout of chicken pox they had as kids, right? It can come back as shingles when you’re an adult. If we’ll buy what the National Institutes of Health is saying, over a third of American seniors aged over 60 will get shingles, and 50 percent of all Americans will experience it before they’re 80. It usually affects only one side of your body, starting out with severe pain or tingling and then developing into an itchy rash and possibly blisters. There is a vaccine available, so talk to your doctor…
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