Make It a Healthy Thanksgiving This Year for Your Senior Loved Ones!
Close your eyes, breathe in deeply, and you can nearly catch the aroma of it now: the turkey roasting, buttery yeast rolls, fresh-baked pies and other desserts, and the other special treats we delight in during Thanksgiving festivities with family and friends. But for seniors who struggle with the concerns of following a special dietary […]
Mixing Meds with Vitamins: The Hidden Dangers
“Don’t forget to take your vitamins!” How frequently have we been made aware of the need to meet the daily recommended requirements for the vitamin and mineral supplements that are meant to keep us healthier? What we don’t hear as frequently is the hazard in mixing medications with vitamins or OTC supplements – especially for […]
Compassionate Nursing Services Shares Top Medication Management Tricks
While we know that medications are very often life-saving, we have also heard some alarming accounts of people who wrongly received an incorrect prescription – either because of a mistake with the prescribing medical practitioner or the pharmacy. Yet there’s another inherent hazard to taking any medication: substance misuse. In the same way it would […]
Looking to Improve Senior Fitness? Compassionate Nursing Services Can Help!
It’s common for seniors to fall into a more sedentary routine when dealing with such challenges as prolonged pain, stiffness of joints and muscles, and overall lethargy. However, inactivity has a tendency to worsen the very problems older adults are attempting to relieve by keeping away from physical exercise. The senior care team at Compassionate […]
Healthy Aging Should Include a Healthy Brain! Try These Tips for Better Brain Health.
We know the numerous positive effects to continuing to be physically active as we grow older – decreased risk of stroke and heart attack, diabetes, obesity, and many more. But it is just as important to keep our brains healthy and active, and given that September is Healthy Aging Month, it’s the right time to […]
Caring for Cancer: How to Ease the Side Effects of Chemo
Chemotherapy saves lives, and is used to treat as many as 650,000 Americans each year; but as miraculous as this treatment method may be, it’s not without risks and often uncomfortable side effects. Compassionate Nursing Services, top providers of St. Louis home healthcare services, helps break down the most common side effects of chemo, and […]
Prevent Heat-Related Illness with These Summer Safety Tips for Seniors
As we move through the dog days of summer, the more lengthy stretches of sunlight, heightened humidity and higher temperatures can quickly have an effect on the wellness of seniors. Since hundreds of people in America die each summer as a result of heat-related issues, and many of those are older adults, it is vital […]
Spring Into Action to Combat Stress, Anxiety, and Arthritis
It’s a vicious cycle: the chronic pain of arthritis heightens levels of stress and anxiety, which in turn can actually worsen arthritis pain. Without taking deliberate steps to break the cycle and restore a sense of calm and wellbeing, arthritic symptoms can continue to exacerbate, along with a host of other physical ailments. Compassionate Nursing […]
Simple Tips to Help Reduce Arthritis Pain
Aching, swelling, burning, stiffness. Those with arthritis know these feelings all too well, ranging from minor discomfort to excruciating pain. And unfortunately, ongoing relief can be difficult to obtain. For the more than 52 million Americans diagnosed with arthritis, it’s important to keep a record of when and where the pain is most severe, what […]
Improve Memory and Keep the Brain Sharp with These Tips
Is there anything more fascinating than the human brain? And as medically advanced as this generation is, many of the brain’s intricate complexities are still not fully understood. One thing we do know, however, is that our memory capabilities naturally begin to wane as we age; and yet, this process can actually be reversed through […]