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Ageing Skin and Elderly Bathing: Skin Conditions, Skin Care, Personal Hygiene and Grooming

This post discusses some of the changes that can happen to your ageing skin, your anti-ageing skincare options, common elderly skin conditions/ skin disorders, and tips on safer elderly bathing – with the use of essential bath aids for elderly.
Bathing is a part of our daily life. However, as one ages, it can become difficult due to ageing health conditions and/ or mobility problems. Elderly skin conditions/ disorders and their prevalence are linked to personal hygiene care and grooming in ageing skin.
As an older adult, keeping up with your personal hygiene is very important for your skin and mental health.

20/12/2020 No Comments

Sleep

Elderly Sleep: Importance, Problems, Remedies – Key Tips and Strategies for Restorative Sleep

Sleep in the elderly may be the most critical aspect of the ageing process. A lack of sleep can contribute to the development of poor health habits, such as the development of obesity, increased stress levels, and decreased immune system function.

Some key tips and strategies can help make it easier for you, as an older adult or elderly person, to get adequate rest.

Today, we will look at the reasons why you might be suffering from a lack of sleep; and offer some solutions to help get those necessary hours of sleep…

19/12/2020 No Comments

Toileting

Elderly Toilet Hygiene, Incontinence, Programmes and Exercises for Complete Bladder and Bowel Health

Elderly Toilet Hygiene is an important toileting issue/ problem for many older adults – keeping your toilet accessible and clean, but also keeping yourself clean, when using the toilet. Urinary, faecal/ bowel incontinence is another major toileting issue in older adults.

This post is all about how to help you, as an elderly person, more easily manage your toileting hygiene and incontinence needs. We discuss issues of incontinence, and how you might go about treating them; elderly urinary retention and toileting programmes such as timed voiding; and exercises to strengthen your bladder/ bowel muscles

We also highlight toilet aids that can make your toilet hygiene easier…

07/12/2020 No Comments

Dining

Nutritional Needs for Elderly: Food, Drinks and Meals for Optimum Energy and Disease Prevention

Elderly people need special attention concerning nutritional care. That is because nutrition problems For the elderly can easily be overlooked and attributed to normal ageing processes. When older adults’ dietary needs are not adequately met, the resulting malnutrition causes significant and long-lasting health conditions over time.

The effects of poor nutrition in the elderly causes or complicates health conditions, such as osteoporosis, kidney disease, hypothermia, potentially lethal infections and heart failure. Malnutrition in the elderly population is a major health problem. However, it can easily be corrected.

This post expands your understanding of elderly nutritional needs (Calcium, Vitamin D, Potassium, Dietary Fibre…) and natural or supplementary food sources. As well as common nutritional deficiencies to look out for – such as Vitamins D, B12 And Calcium – in the elderly

03/12/2020 No Comments

Pressure Care

Elderly Bed Sores: Causes, Symptoms, Most Useful Prevention Tips, Treatment

Elderly bed sores are most likely to develop in elderly people who are bed bound, have mobility difficulties, or are paralysed and/ or malnourished.

Bed sores are also known as pressure sores or pressure ulcers.
For elderly people with underlying health conditions such as diabetes or circulatory problems, bed sores present even more serious health risks, including lessened response to treatment and greater difficulty in healing.

Today, we will answer your questions on why does elderly get bed sores, how to prevent bed sores in elderly, how to prevent bed sores for bed bound elderly, best course of action for infected bed sores in elderly, how to treat bed sores in elderly, what to do if it’s at a stage where you cannot look after it yourself, and many more.

02/12/2020 No Comments

Seating

Disability Chairs for Correct Sitting Posture: Specialist Seating and Chairs for Pain-Free Spinal Health

With a disability, it is vital that you enjoy a correct sitting posture which is adequately supported and strengthened. Disability chairs and specialist seating for disabled adults give you customisable and flexible sitting support.

That helps ensure that your sitting posture is at it’s best to support you and your internal organs.

Disability chairs – combined with disability seated posture exercises – help prevent or ease sitting problems. And strengthens your spine/ posture to avoid discomfort and pain.

30/11/2020 No Comments

Daily Living

Essential Hearing Loss Facts to Solve Your Hearing Impairment Problems

Hearing loss/ hearing impairment can happen in only one (unilateral), or both ears (bilateral). Hearing problems can be from birth, or acquired as one gets older. It may be temporary or permanent and happens gradually or suddenly.

Hearing disability, where the level of hearing loss/ impairment is so high, as to be life-altering – socially and at work – is an invisible disability. Today, we discuss treatment options for this invisible disability. And when you may be able to claim disability benefit, depending on your type of hearing loss and degree of hearing impairment.

Finally, tinnitus – which though not a type of hearing loss – can still cause severe distress and affect one’s quality of life…

21/11/2020 No Comments

Mobility

Joint Pain and Mobility Disability: Everything to Reduce Pain and Increase Movement

Severe joint pain or muscle pain – musculoskeletal pain – can reduce joint stability and lead to mobility disability. Your mobility can be affected by many things throughout life, from injury to long-term health conditions such as osteoarthritis or cerebral palsy.

If your mobility and range of motion are affected by pain, there are things you can do to help. Working with your doctor or physiotherapist can help you build a care plan of exercise and/ or medication.

Mobility exercises and exercise for disabled people help to improve your posture, range of motion and flexibility. At the same time, mobility devices and equipment for disabled people will further aid your mobility, where you currently struggle.

Those steps will fix your mobility problem or help you manage it, so it isn’t affecting your daily life.

This article expands on what joint mobility is and how it can be affected by certain health conditions; joint stability, flexibility and pain. As well as ways to relieve any pain you’re experiencing.

21/11/2020 No Comments

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21/08/2020 No Comments

Dining

Nutrition and ageing: The effect of nutrition on ageing and 5 Tips for Lifetime Fitness

Nutrition and ageing go hand-in-hand. There are many theories on healthy ageing. The most influential idea is that the only way to stay healthy and live long is to eat healthily, exercise regularly, and get regular sleep.

Also, the effect of nutrition on ageing cannot be over-emphasised.

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Good nutrition helps to combat that, by supplying our bodies with the right kinds of nutrients/ building blocks, to ensure that the rate of new cell production stays as high as possible and prolongs the life of those cells.

10/05/2020 No Comments

Mobility

Daily Problems and Challenges of Using a Wheelchair

The daily problems/ challenges of using a wheelchair, is mostly unrecognized by non-wheelchair users. I

03/03/2015 No Comments

Mobility

The Challenges of Disability and Poor Mobility

Poor mobility, due to a disability or ageing is mostly something that happens at a definite

02/03/2015 No Comments

Pressure Sore Prevention: Wheelchair Users, Enjoy Comfort and Curb Infections

Pressure Care

Pressure Sore Prevention for Wheelchair Users

How do wheelchair users prevent pressure sores? Pressure sores – How long does it take

27/02/2015 No Comments

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Ageing Skin and Elderly Bathing: Skin Conditions, Skin Care, Personal Hygiene and Grooming

Elderly Sleep: Importance, Problems, Remedies – Key Tips and Strategies for Restorative Sleep

Elderly Toilet Hygiene, Incontinence, Programmes and Exercises for Complete Bladder and Bowel Health

Nutritional Needs for Elderly: Food, Drinks and Meals for Optimum Energy and Disease Prevention

Elderly Bed Sores: Causes, Symptoms, Most Useful Prevention Tips, Treatment

Disability Chairs for Correct Sitting Posture: Specialist Seating and Chairs for Pain-Free Spinal Health

Essential Hearing Loss Facts to Solve Your Hearing Impairment Problems

Joint Pain and Mobility Disability: Everything to Reduce Pain and Increase Movement

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