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February has been designated as National Eating Disorders Awareness Month, and while you might think that eating disorders are limited to teenagers and young adults, the number of seniors who have eating disorders has steadily been increasing. In many cases, these are not new, emerging situations, but they actually developed during younger years and were […]

Since Thyroid Disease Awareness Month is set for January 2023, this would be an appropriate time to take a few moments to have your thyroid checked, and to have any senior loved ones with you checked also. There are two different diseases that can affect the thyroid gland, and they often have opposite effects. Hypothyroidism is

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness, and that’s one of the reasons why January 2023 has been designated as National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Glaucoma is a disease that more frequently affects older people, although people of all ages can contract glaucoma. It is a particularly difficult disease to treat because there are often

January of 2023 will be International Quality Of Life Month around the world, and that makes it a great time to consider just what the quality of life is for our senior loved ones. In many cases, senior parents live right in the homes of their adult children and receive care from them in their later

Every year since 2000, March has been designated as National Colorectal Cancer Month, and the whole point of this designation is to help increase people’s awareness of the disease, so they can have it diagnosed early and treated while it’s still in a treatable phase. As with all forms of cancer, the earlier the disease