What Is the Link Between Depression and Heart Disease?
Experiencing a heart attack changes life in an instant. What seemed important before the health crisis suddenly fades into the background, as the main concern becomes helping the damaged heart to heal. Life is then filled with adjusting to new medications, implementing dietary changes and an exercise regimen, following up with medical appointments and tests, […]
What Are the Healthiest Foods for Seniors’ Hearts?
There are lots of visual reminders this time of the year that prompt us to think about that tremendously vital organ that works around the clock to help keep us healthy! Store shelves are full of heart-shaped balloons, boxes of candy, and cards. Because it’s also American Heart Month, it’s an ideal time to take […]
How Home Care Helps With Congestive Heart Failure
We only have one, and it’s possibly the most critical part of the body – so learning that our heart is “failing” is quite scary. Congestive heart failure impacts about 6 million individuals in the United States alone, according to the CDC, and although it’s a chronic illness, there are actions people can take to […]
Home Care Helps After a Cardiac Procedure
During National Heart Month, there are two important ways you can give your heart some love: understand how to maintain heart health, and find out how home care can help speed recovery if you’ve experienced a cardiac procedure. Look After Your Heart These basic steps will help maintain heart fitness by keeping cholesterol and blood […]
Home Care Helps After a Cardiac Procedure
During National Heart Month, there are two important ways you can give your heart some love: understand how to maintain heart health, and find out how home care can help speed recovery if you’ve experienced a cardiac procedure. Look After Your Heart These basic steps will help maintain heart fitness by keeping cholesterol and blood […]
Heart Health Awareness Tips for Seniors During Heart Month and Beyond
“Your heart is the softest place on earth. Take care of it!” – Nayyirah Waheed You can’t escape them this time of year: flaming red heart-shaped balloons, cookies, cakes, boxes of chocolates, and cards that grab our attention and remind us to show those most important to us how much we love them. However, they […]
Show Your Heart Some Love: Prevent High Cholesterol
Hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, HDLs and LDLs: what do they mean, and are they putting you in danger of a heart attack? Though the terms may very well be confusing, it’s very important to know the basics of cholesterol and its effect on our heart health – and most importantly, what proactive steps you can take to […]
How to Live Life Better After a Heart Attack
After undergoing a heart attack, it’s commonplace to undergo a wide variety of emotions: relief that the ordeal is over, uncertainty about what may possibly have induced the attack, and worry about the risk of it happening once again, just to name a few. The good news is there are actions that heart attack survivors […]
How to Help Seniors Better Manage High Blood Pressure
Growing older and high blood pressure seem to come in tandem, with the chances escalating for individuals over age 65. Once a senior reaches age 75, somewhere between 67% and 79% will likely be dealing with the challenges of high blood pressure. And the ensuing impacts can be severe: from chronic stroke, heart failure and […]
Protect Your Heart: Learn the Warning Signs of a Heart Attack from Hearts at Home
While the stores are stocked with heart-shaped everything in honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s the perfect reminder for all of us to take care of our hearts, and in particular, to be able to identify the signals of a heart attack and to know clearly what to do if we think that a senior loved […]