The Affordable Care Act won’t make Americans healthy, only Americans can do that
Moral hazard is an economic term that refers to the undue risks people are willing to take if they don’t bear the responsibility for the consequences.
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The best way to stay healthy is to live a healthy lifestyle. You can live a healthy lifestyle and prevent disease by exercising, eating well, keeping a healthy weight, and not smoking. Medicare can also help keep you healthy.
Sibling heart attack may be warning sign
A nation-wide study in Sweden found that the death of an adult sibling increased the likelihood of a heart attack in the population up to 18 years after the bereavement.Â
Are your perceptions about your health unhealthy?
Do you think you’re healthy? A report from the Heart and Stroke Foundation looked at how Canadians perceived their own health. Eighty percent of Canadian baby boomers felt that their doctors would rate them as healthy despite the fact that many of them smoked, drank heavily or had other unhealthy habits.Â
Two studies look at high blood pressure
Study links high blood pressure with aging of brain Neurologists at UC Davis measured the affect that high blood pressure had on the brains of 579 participants and concluded that even a little bit higher than normal blood pressure can lead to damage to the structural integrity of the brain that is evident by age … Read more
Your health: the younger, the better when it comes to shingles vaccine
A recent article on the website SeniorJournal.com cites an evidence review from the Cochrane Library that seems to indicate that the shingles vaccine works best if you get it before age 70. Shingles, also known as herpes zoster or zoster, is an extremely painful skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. The … Read more
Planning for Eldercare
Holiday Blues – Depression in the Elderly The holiday season is quickly coming upon us. If you are a caregiver for an elderly loved one, you may notice a change in your loved one’s mood as the holidays approach. Perhaps you are one of many, who visit elderly parents and family during the holidays who … Read more