Archive for Health & Wellness
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10 Tips for Family Caregivers: Achieving Balance in Life
From the National Family Caregivers Association and Milestones Area Agency on Aging As a family caregiver, your health and well-being is important. But how can you find ways to care for yourself and juggle your role as a caregiver? These tips offer you can use on daily basis to make your tasks ea...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Beacon Light Ready to reveal, the light concealing, Set to illuminate true, steadfast feeling. The fraught riotous context of the Earth, So complicates our transit from birth. Impedimenta dark upon the riven t...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems Thankfulness Is in Your Perspective By Gail Glockhoff-Long GolderCare Solutions Benefits Advocate November is a time when we start cocooning for winter and think back on the blessings of the past year. The beauty of the fall trees. My summer zinnia garden. T...
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Ask the Audiologist
What are some safe ways to deal with earwax? By Alexandra Carmichael, Au.D. Audiology Consultants, P.C. Earwax, also known as cerumen, is naturally produced in the ear canal. A certain amount of earwax is healthy and plays a very important role in protecting the ear canal from dust, bacteria, and...
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Calendar of Events | OCTOBER 2024
If you have an upcoming event that you would like published, please mail info to: 50+Lifestyles, P. O. Box 2125, Davenport, IA, 52809 Attn: Eloise or email: publisher@50pluslife.com Attn: Eloise. Please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month you want activity listed. Support Grou...
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Fire Prevention Week – October 6-12
This year’s theme is “Smoke Alarms: Make them work for you!” By Eloise Graham Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 blaze that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more tha...
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Aging and You
October Is Here! By Julie Arndt Marketing Director at Ridgecrest Village Time is flying by way too fast for many of us. I love the change of the seasons. October ushers in an abundance of rich beauty and crisp morning air. I recall as a child taking trips to the Mississippi in the fall to take ...
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Self-Care for Caregivers
Milestones Area Agency on Aging Being a family caregiver is a demanding and often emotionally taxing role. While caregiving can be fulfilling, it also presents unique challenges that can lead to stress and burnout. Caregivers must take time to manage their own mental and personal health to ensure...
