Archives for Healthy Living

Ways to Protect Your Hearing

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, a time to raise awareness about hearing health and promote strategies for preventing hearing loss. Hearing loss is a common condition among seniors, impacting their quality of life and interpersonal connections. Let’s explore the prevalence of hearing loss among seniors, its primary causes, and practical steps seniors can take to protect and preserve their hearing.   The Prevalence of Senior Hearing Loss Hearing loss is a widespread issue among older adults, affecting a significant portion of the senior population. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), approximately one
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Habits for a Healthier Lifestyle

Meeting goals can be a complicated nut to crack, but approaching your goals as a habit change is the most likely to lead to success. It’s never too late to start a new healthy habit. We are still at the beginning of the year and a lot of changes can take place between now and the end of the year. So how do we incorporate healthy habits in a sustainable and enjoyable way? Here are a few helpful tips to help you in this.   Healthy Habits for a Healthier Lifestyle Have breakfast – often time people skip this part
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How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions

Struggling to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions The new year can often start out strong when we make a lot of highly aspirational goals for ourselves, but then it’s right around the end of January and the beginning of February that we lose steam. While the end of the year is a perfect time to wind down and examine how the previous year has gone, the idea of a fresh start sometimes turns our goal making too lofty. Sticking to your goals is important, you made these resolutions for a good reason in the first place. Often times we are
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Healthy Ingredients to Swap Into Recipes

Eating is such a joy. Food brings comfort or excitement or, at the very least, sustenance. When looking to change a diet it can be extra difficult to let go of certain foods, especially if they’re a favorite. But don’t stress, this article is meant to help you swap out a few ingredients or items for healthier options without feeling growing pains associated with the swaps. With a few creative ideas eating healthy can be effortless.   Doable and Realistic Ingredient Substitutions When discussing healthy ingredients and healthy recipes it is important to remember that following the shift in your
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Local Halloween Themed Activities for Seniors

Join in the Halloween festivities this year! There are plenty of creative and accessible crafts and activities to do from home or out in the Highland Park area. Halloween Is Just Around the Corner Crafts are a way to celebrate Halloween from home or with friends. Decorate pumpkins, make decorative spider webs, make spiral ghosts, make spooky candles, decorative Halloween garlands. If food is more up your alley, then make a seasonal cider or deviled eggs. An activity to get a group involved is by playing Halloween charades, by sharing scary stories, by making a homemade costume contest, by trick
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How Yoga Can Benefit Seniors

Incorporating physical activity into our daily routine can be very beneficial, especially for seniors! Even a small physical task to get your heart pumping can provide tremendous benefits. Check out Freedom Home Care’s list on the benefits of yoga below. Yoga for Seniors For most seniors, yoga may sound intimidating. The poses and stretches may be too much for any senior to handle. However, yoga can be personalized to still allow for a beneficial physical activity without the fear of getting injured. Simple yoga poses seniors can try include child’s pose, tree pose, warrior ll and more that you can
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February is American Heart Month

It is American heart month! Each February is recognized as a time to acknowledge heart disease and how to adopt a healthy lifestyle. What better way to start the new year than by taking care of your heart and supporting those with heart disease. Read more below about American heart month facts. American Heart Month is observed to raise awareness on the importance of a healthy heart and to encourage healthy habits that help reduce the risk of heart disease. Heart disease can affect all ages, genders, and ethnicities. Risk factors include high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, and
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Tips on How to Stay Healthy at Home: Physically, Mentally, and Nutritionally

Over the months of the COVID-19 pandemic many of us have been staying at home and doing less activities when it comes to social interaction and exercise. Doing this over a period of time can have a negative impact on your health for many reasons. With that said, we at Freedom Home Care have put together some advice on how to stay healthy both physically and mentally at home. Staying Physically Active at Home: At a time like this, it is really important for people of all ages to stay as active as then can. Even taking a short break
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Laughter Turns Out to Be the Best Form of Medicine

Trying to relief stress is no joke- especially when you are dealing with a lot. When it comes to trying to relieve stress, the more giggles and laughter the better. Doctors at Mayo Clinic have conducted studies on why laughter is good for stress relief. Find out more from us at Freedom Home Care! Stress Relief from Laughter While laughter alone can’t solve stress, there are a lot of positive things laughter can do for your stress both long and short term. A good laugh has excellent short-term effects on your mind and body. As you begin to laugh, not
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How to Make a Homemade Face Mask

With the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of questions about how to keep yourself safe and prevent the spread of the virus. The CDC has come out to say that people should wear face masks or cloth face coverings to help keep themselves and others safer when they go out. You can learn more about why this is important below, and you can learn how to make a homemade face mask for yourself or your loved ones. According to the Center for Disease Control or CDC, wearing a cloth face mask can help prevent the spread of COVID-19, particularly
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