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What Louisville Families Should Know About Long Distance Caregiving
Long Distance Caregiving for Louisville Seniors Caregiving is often a long-term task. It might start out as an occasional phone call to share family news, but can eventually turn into regular...
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Lousiville Seniors: Support and Resources for Those with Parkinson's
Louisville seniors struggle with every things, as do seniors everywhere. Elderly men and women newly diagonsed with Parkinson's disease is are not expempt. If you are younger and diagnosed, you...
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Celebrating our 2018 Regional Nurses of the Year
What makes nurses so special? We believe it is a special combination of head and heart. They have the knowledge and clinical expertise to provide the very best care as well as genuine compassion...
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How Louisville Seniors Can Keep Their Kidneys Healthy
Louisville Seniors: Here Are 5 Tips for Better Kidney Health Your kidneys work hard for you, day in and day out. To take good care of them, you’ll want to focus on these things that make a...
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All About Louisville Seniors and Sleep Disorders
As Louisville seniors age, they experience many changes in appearance, energy, health, and sleep. When it comes to a change in sleeping patterns and disorders develop, other complications can begin...
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Help For Your Heart - Heart Health Information for the Louisville Senior
For Louisville seniors, heart disease is one of the top death causes. Therefore, it is very important for seniors to maintain their heart conditions and overall health. University of Louisville...
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February is American Heart Month
4 Ways to Take Control of Your Heart Health You’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to your heart. Learn how to be heart healthy at any age.Don’t smoke. Smoking...
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Caregiver spotlight: Patience is a virtue
A caregiver’s gentle persistence pays dividendsfor a woman living with dementia and her daughter Four years ago, when 88-year-old Lucy fell and broke her hip, her daughter, Katie, knew it...
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Benefits of Gardening with Your Loved One in the South
In honor of National Family Caregivers Month, BrightStar Care took a look at the most popular family caregiver activities across the country. Based on national search data from Google, gardening...
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4 strategies when individuals with dementia refuse medication
By Sharon Roth Maguire, MS, RN, GNP-BC Chief Clinical Quality Officer, BrightStar Care People with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia may take multiple medications. And because the risk of...