Posts by Royal Heir Home Care
Eight Ways Gardening Helps Aging Adults
As the pandemic lockdown began, the Associated Press reported on a gardening boom in the U.S. People weren’t only stocking up on toilet paper and hand sanitizer! Some were emptying the garden store shelves of seeds, compost and bedding plants. This isn’t surprising, historians say. Often during times of crisis, people have an impulse to…
Read More4 Steps to Help Manage Arthritis
June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, as well as National Safety Month, making it a great time to raise awareness of home safety for people with dementia. Today, 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to triple within the next few decades. Memory care facilities…
Read MoreOlder Feet Need Special Care
An engineering team hardly could have come up with a structure more complicated than the human foot. Our bodies have 206 bones—and 52 of those bones are in our feet! The job our feet do is complicated, as well. They support our body weight, which adds up to tons of pressure every day as we…
Read MoreBe Kind to Your Future Self
It’s always tempting to live in the moment—to think about today rather than plan for tomorrow. But that’s a recipe for disappointment when it comes to preparing for our older years. Experts have developed many innovative experiments to encourage younger people to plan ahead for the changes of aging. There are “aging suits” that use…
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