Preparing for an emergency
Courtesy Acadian Ambulance Service
In a medical emergency, seconds count. Taking some simple steps now to prepare your family and home could be invaluable if you ever need to call for help. […]
UTMB Study Suggests Recovery at HOME could Improve Outcomes!
By The Gerontological Society of America, Courtesy Unlimited Care of North Texas, Inc., Denton LIVING WELL Magazine
Confirming many patients’ worst fears, a national study has shown that being hospitalized for an acute event, such as a stroke or hip fracture, can lead to long-term institutionalization in a nursing home. Equally alarming, researchers found that direct discharge to a skilled nursing facility—common practice designed to reduce hospital stays—puts patients at “extreme high risk” of needing long-term nursing home care. […]
Is Your D on the Decline?
By Stephanie Mellor, DNP, ARNP, ANP-C, GNP-C, CCCN
An increased desire and awareness of vitamin D’s benefits has been on the rise. Why? A variety of unwanted conditions have been linked with low levels of vitamin D, including: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, mental illnesses such as depression, chronic pain, falls and fractures, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, fatigue, influenza, and autoimmune diseases. […]
Handling the Holidays When You’re Feeling Blue
Courtesy Jenkins-Soffe, Salt Lake City LIVING WELL Magazine
We often hear the greeting “Happy Holidays” this time of year, but if you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, the holiday season may be anything but happy. Sometimes the holidays cause us to be more aware of the empty space that our loved one has left behind. […]
A PATH TOWARDS HEALING
Learning to find hope after the death of a family member
Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine
In the U.S. today, there is a natural, assumed order to the deaths we will experience in our lives. We believe that our grandparents will die first, then our parents, then our brothers and sisters, and then our children. […]
Movement Rejuvenation, Part 2
By Fred Miller, DC
At Doctors Chiropractic and Physical Therapy Group, we are specialists in movement rejuvenation. We restore motion of your joints and muscles, improve balance and bring back vitality and strength. You have lost so much of this over the years of taking care of everything else…except yourself. […]
Lacombe Nursing Centre
Rehab S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten”
By Samantha R. Young, MCD CCC/SLP, Program Manager
The Rehab Department of Lacombe Nursing Centre developed and launched two interventions last fall that have been very successful with the residents that have participated, especially those who have returned home – S.T.E.P.S. Program and “Eldergarten.” […]
Managing Menopause with Chinese Medicine
By Ashley Miller, MSTOM, ACA
Menopause marks a great transition in a woman’s life. Most women cringe at the thought of going through this change because of some of the “side-effects” that it seems to bring. The hormonal changes that accompany menopause often cause hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, insomnia, fatigue, and dryness, among other complaints. […]
“It’s All About Timing: Total Joint Replacements”
By Greg Zelden, PT, Director of Physical Therapy, Fairway Medical Surgical Hospital
When is it time to choose total joint replacement? Based solely on the personal nature of elective surgical procedures, one would anticipate their own need to elect surgical intervention. Yet, this is not a decision which is made easily; and, in some instances, the choice is made poorly. They wait too late. […]
Emeritus at Overland Park
DESIGNED TO MEET THE RESIDENTS’ NEEDS…
Johnson County LIVING WELL Magazine
A small community, Emeritus at Overland Park is divided into four separate houses all within the same building. Country Lane, Garden Path, Boathouse Cove, and Cottage Place each have its own indoor porch and front door. The houses are built around a center that includes the art studio, community room, beauty shop, and health center. […]
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