“Come to bootcamp with me! It’s so fun and you’ll feel great,” your friend encourages. You go along, you want to spend time with people you care about and fitness is important–what could go wrong? Strained muscles, new back problems, or knee pain; bodies over 50 have different needs and the goals of ‘fitness’ often […]
Are You Navigating the Symptoms of Perimenopause? What’s Going On With My Hormones? Peri/Menopause Primer Aromatherapy As Treatment for Perimenopause 5 Peri Symptoms No One Talks About The Veil of Secrecy Over Perimenopause What’s happened to my Libido? Perimenopause and Anxiety Top 11 symptoms of Perimenopause 5 Health Risks in Perimenopause and Beyond Dealing with […]
Our previous blog post focused on housing as a solution to healthcare challenges. We touched on the stakeholders – insurance, long-term care stakeholders, policy leaders, health professionals, construction industry to name a few. Well it may go without saying but the actual consumers of these services, the aging population, should be invested if they aren’t […]
This week’s “Back to the Future” blog is from 2015 when Harvard Medical School’s Health Beats included “Housing” at the top of their list for preparing to age safely. Housing isn’t often associated with healthcare even in a pandemic when many people are opting to receive healthcare in the home or via telehealth. Yet housing, […]
In just four years, telehealth has moved from the fringes to our living rooms. This blog post comes from 2017, not too long ago, but long enough that it is a disappointment that policies have not changed or been implemented to benefit our aging population. H.R. 1780, the Senior Accessible Housing Act, was introduced and […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. During these COVID days, we took a look at past blogs and realized that they were remarkably prescient. There are many challenges to home modifications and aging in place that are still relevant today – in some cases over a decade later! In fact, one […]
I Fail Daily: Self-Care Rx If I were inclined to judge (wink, wink), I might observe some weeks as better than others. This week, for instance, might be considered a bad week. I have totaled my car (run-ins with a bolting stag has that effect), mourned the passing of a dear relative (damn cancer), juggled […]
Stay sane during Covid It began with a shock as the virus spread, everything closed and markets crashed. Then things got eerily quiet. For a while doom scrolling kept us busy. Then the scramble to set up a home office and learning spaces for the kids. Next came guzzling down Netflix episodes for light drama […]
April is Occupational Therapy month! To kick off April we would like to highlight the contributions that occupational therapists make to the home modification and aging in place process. This week we have a guest blog authored by Dr. Scott A. Trudeau, PhD, OTR/L and Hannah Brock. Dr. Trudeau is the Productive Aging Practice Manager […]
Save big on home improvements In the olden days, pre 2020, we all paid scant attention to the condition of our homes. Back then, we focused on the snack we were grabbing in the kitchen, the dog we were leashing for a stroll and the barbecue out on the deck. Now that we are all […]
