Senior's Health Package
Over 200,000 words organized under 20 different topic areas with a focus on the health issues of most interest to our aging population. The selection of materials compiled by the editors of Harvard Health Publications, includes topics such as: care giving, advanced care directives, arthritis, diabetes, healthy aging, vision problems, home safety, hearing loss, heart disease, incontinence, memory, mental health, medication costs and safety and more.
Exercise
Exercise and Aging: Can you Walk Away from Father Time
New research indicates that—while not exactly a fountain of youth—exercise can reverse some of the physiological signs of aging and reduce overall disease and mortality.
Working off Depression
A roundup of studies exploring the beneficial effects of exercise on depression, anxiety and insomnia. Is it a case of the chicken and the egg?
Exercise Your Right to Health
Don't let differing recommendations for how much and how hard to exercise for a healthy heart stop you in your tracks.
Leisure Time Exercise
Covers the impact of increasing amounts of leisure time and how you can include exercise in your leisure activities. Includes a reference chart on activities that compares amount of time versus effort.
HARVARD COMMENTARIES ON HEALTH
- Selecting a Fitness Center
- Fighting Peripheral Vascular Disease Through Exercise
- Osteoporosis and Exercise
- Strength Training for All Ages
ASK-THE-EXPERT
- I take care of a lady with Parkinson's disease. Is exercise (very light) beneficial for patients like her? I thought that we could work on a few leg and arm exercises to strengthen the parts she can and will move.
- I have recently been diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy. I am not a diabetic. Are there any exercises I should be doing for this condition? Also, I have bulging veins in my legs. Could this cause neuropathy and would it help to have them corrected?