You’re just about to pack the last suitcase before you leave for your trip with your husband, first one since retiring last year, when the call comes in. Mom fell. For those caring for older ...
Prescription for Heart Health: Find Your Purpose
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 ...
Creating a New Life Experience: Inspiring People to Age Magnificently
On October 27, Joel Theisen, RN, CEO of Lifesprk will address this concept of creating a new life experience at the upcoming SAGE-ing Conference to hundreds of seniors who aspire to be on a ‘Sage-ing ...
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 ...
Growing Health Epidemic Hits Minnesota Seniors – What You Can Do For Your Aging Loved One
Social Isolation Effects Similar to Smoking 15 Cigarettes Per Day Not obesity or smoking, but social isolation, according to Joel Theisen, RN, CEO of Lifesprk, is the number one issue we should be looking at ...
Lifesprk Nurse Shares Her Perspective On What Matters When Connecting With Senior Clients
Mary Susan Timion, BSN, RN, Director, Life Care at Summit Place Senior Living couldn’t explain how she felt when she connected with a senior client of hers so she took a few moments and wrote ...
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, ...
Who’s Your Home Care Quarterback
We aren’t talking about Tom Brady or Nick Foles – but we are using the upcoming Super Bowl as a senior care metaphor (we have to; it is in our home state). Picture the quarterbacks ...
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 ...
