Category: Healthy Aging

Healthy Aging

National Nutrition Month® 2018

No matter your age, healthy eating habits are important for a long, vibrant life. This is why the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics created National Nutrition Month® as a means to drive awareness and education surrounding the importance of making healthy food choices, developing better eating habits, and exercising regularly.

Healthy Aging

Top 5 Tips for Healthy Joints

If you experience joint pain on a regular basis, it’s highly likely that you’re not enjoying the best quality of life possible. Joints are the connections between bones that allow movement to body parts like your knees, hips, shoulders, neck, and elbows. Over time, it’s common for joints to wear down, causing conditions like osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease affecting over a third

Healthy Aging

Do You Need Hip Replacement Surgery?

If you experience daily hip pain from a prior injury or a condition like arthritis, it might be time to consider a total hip replacement. As one of the most commonly-performed elective surgeries in the United States, hip replacement surgery could help you get back to the lifestyle you’re accustomed to.

Healthy Aging

Rehabilitation After a Fall: What to Expect

When seniors fall, the injuries they face often lead to a compromise in their independence. Research shows that 87 percent of all fractures in the elderly are due to falling, including 95 percent of all hip fractures. If these seniors neglect to seek proper treatment and rehabilitation immediately, over half of them will likely experience a subsequent fall within a six-month period.