The elderly adult’s nutritional health is crucial. It can dramatically affect his or her ability to fight diseases, recover from sickness or surgical operations, more importantly, live a healthy life.
Shedding excess weight is usually a positive for seniors who are looking to improve their health. But on the other hand, some seniors drop weight without any diet or exercise or due to natural muscle loss (Sarcopenia) and it is a cause for concern.
The immune system is your body’s defense mechanism that works tirelessly to protect you from harmful pathogens, viruses and infections.
Your twilight years may be approaching but that isn’t a reason to tie your shoelaces loose, or worse, hang up those walking shoes for good. In fact, as you grow older, keeping active is exactly what your body needs to maintain mobility, endurance, and to prolong your independence.
When you are young, a fall or two is just a brief moment of pain and heals complications free. But for the elderly, when the body is much less efficient at anything, falling once doubles your chances of falling again. As a caregiver, you must get to the bottom of what caused the fall and take preventative measures.
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