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Essential Things You Must Know about Wound Care

As the body ages, it becomes less efficient in repairing itself. One of the manifestations of this decline is the slower healing of wounds in senior adults. This is why effective wound management is a must for the elderly, as it can affect...

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Effective Strategies in Managing Diabetes

The prevalence of diabetes is rising dramatically worldwide, and it has become one of the most common systemic and chronic diseases. It is also ranked as the seventh leading cause of death in the US, according to the American Diabetes...

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Protecting Your Patient from Diabetic Coma

A diabetic coma occurs is a life-threatening complication that causes unconsciousness to patients with dangerously high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) and dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Caring for a senior with diabetes can be...

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How Physical Therapy Helps Manage Fatigue

We all know how tiredness feels like - we feel it now and then. Our go-to response when we feel tired is to rest or go to sleep in the hopes that after some time, we may feel refreshed and ready to work again. But this may not happen all the...

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Ensuring That Seniors Eat Healthy

Our bodies utilize nutrients and minerals from food for everyday functions. Even as we get older, it remains imperative to eat healthy, nutritious meals, especially for seniors who are prone to malnutrition. Undernourishment among the elderly...

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How Does Hearing Loss Affect the Elderly?

Hearing loss is a common problem among seniors and its effects to the elderly is not as simple as losing the ability to hear. It goes way beyond that. Not being able to hear is ever becoming a severe social and health problem especially to those...

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