Did you know that happiness and a strong sense of emotional vitality helps lower your risk of heart disease? This statistic from the Cleveland Clinic while fun and interesting points to something our Life Care ...
Lifesprk Client Shares His Own Experience On Needing Senior Care, When He Least Expected It
Fish Discover Water Last It’s kind of a funny saying, “fish discover water last.” Basically, it means we often take the most essential things we need for granted. On Friday morning, October 12, I woke ...
Is Chronic Pain Part of Normal Aging? We Say No
September is Pain Awareness Month Wincing I watch my 75-year old uncle walk around his kitchen, slowly and cautiously. The image of the man I see is not the same as the one who danced ...
Four Financial Questions You Need To Ask Your Aging Parents
When Ameriprise released Money Across Generations II, a cross-generational survey of economic perceptions in 2012, the study revealed that only 28 percent of boomers’ parents say they regularly discuss money and finances with their family, ...
Senior’s Take Note: Faced With a Myriad of Health Issues, Jonathan Unlocks the ‘Key’ that Changes Everything
Music was Jonathan Weinhold’s passion. When his wife, Mary, passed away seven years ago, he lost his inspiration to play the piano and for years, the music sat there untouched. Since then his health has ...
The Senior Signs After the Holidays – What They Aren’t Telling You
Download a copy of our ‘When to Consider’ overview which identifies triggers or warning signs and ways to get proactive. You expected the leftovers, endless dirty plates, messy house, endless laughter, and talks of who ...
Top 3 Reasons Seniors Should Learn More About Proactive Rehab to Live Independently at Home
Every senior wants to live as independently as possible for as long as possible at home (or wherever we call home). Unfortunately, most rehabilitation services such as physical, occupational, or speech therapy only kick in ...
Success After Stroke: From ICU to Lattes In Just Four Months…
Every 40 seconds, someone is thrust without any warning into the unchartered territory of caring for a loved one who has just experienced a stroke – the daunting, vulnerable feeling of what do I do ...
Bridging Home Health and Private-Pay: Enabling Seniors To Remain Healthy and Independent Longer
Angela Nelson, RN, Lifesprk Director of Life Care and a Life Care Manager (LCM) knows how seniors quickly become deconditioned after even just one health crisis, never mind several that send them in and out ...
End Alzheimer’s One Step At A Time
Alzheimer’s makes the list of the top 10 leading causes of death and the only one in America that cannot be prevented, cured or slowed. But that doesn’t mean the 1 in 3 seniors affected ...
