One of the most important steps in a senior’s life is to choose the right health advocate.
Your advocate could be your family member or your friend; someone you can trust with your health concerns. The advocate will play a very important role in your healthcare plans in the future.
For example, they can go with you to a doctor, the lab, your pharmacy, or the hospital.
It is very important to name an advocate before you need one, and you can decide the limits of their authority.
You can find more information, videos, and a “My Patient Advocate Agreement” form at www.safetoask.ca
Community News
Take a Load Off
Maintaining workplace mental health is vitally important. Stats show that most people spend the majority of their waking hours at work. Using break times is one effective way to improve overall mental health and boost productivity! Oftentimes, busy schedules and looming deadlines prevent us from taking breaks when we need them most. A short time away, doing something we enjoy, helps to reduce stress and emotional exhaustion, while providing a fresh focus and the necessary energy to accomplish tasks. Stretching, walking, listening to music, and reading or watching something funny are all ways to help lighten the load.
Learning-Related Vision Disorders
While 20/20 vision is a great start, our vision is also related to how well our eyes work together with our brain to process visual information. Many children who suffer with vision problems can go undiagnosed since learning-related vision disorders may not be revealed through a regular eye exam. Lack of eye movement control, focusing difficulties, poor visual memory, and much more can make learning seem overwhelming. Without fundamental visual skills, children may have more difficulty with reading, writing, and comprehension at school. A developmental optometrist diagnoses and provides treatment options for learning-related vision disorders.
Ways to Enjoy Meals for One
Living alone can be a truly positive experience and planning quality meals is a great way to achieve this.
Invite a Friend:
A creative option – don’t always eat meals for one! Plan a get-together with friends and family over food. Meet for tapas at a market, reminisce at a favourite restaurant, or invite someone to cook a new recipe with you.
Much like eating a balanced meal is good for your body, finding a balance between the joys of eating solo and with friends is good for your emotional health. Look for opportunities to share the experience, even when you feel equally comfortable alone.
Elder Abuse is Real!
One of the most underreported crimes in Canada is elder abuse. As of 2016 over 700,000 reports of abuse were recorded. Some abuse is invisible like neglect, psychological abuse and abuse of finances. The people most vulnerable are those who live in social isolation or suffer serious health conditions. And when it comes to physical abuse, data from statistics Canada shows 60% of senior domestic violence victims are female. Warning signs for elder abuse include: Anxiety or fearfulness about someone the elderly individual should trust. Dehydration, poor nutrition, or poor hygiene. Speak to your loved ones about elder abuse and learn more about the resources available to help victims in your community.
Clean Eating Recipe: Green Bananas
GREEN BANANAS:
Into a blender mix:
1 heaping tablespoon (20 gr) of Enerex Botanicals PURE GREEN ENERGY. Fatigue-Zapping Pure Energy Power.
500 ml of unsweetened Coconut milk.
1 fresh Banana.
1 Tbl of Hemp Seed Oil or crushed hemp seed.
1 cup of ice.
Blend and enjoy.
Book Club
Hack Your Anxiety: How to Make Anxiety Work for You in Life, Love, and All That You Do. What if anxiety is not a monster to be tamed, but a resource to be tapped? In this revolutionary book, Dr. Alicia Clark recognizes anxiety as the unsung hero in the path to success and happiness. It can become the motivating force that will lead to a better you, and The Anxiety Advantage aims to restore anxiety to its rightful place as a positive resource. Reclaim your anxiety as a powerful energy source, ad bring yourself peace, growth and success.
Benefits of a Removable Partial Denture
A removable partial denture (RPD) replaces one or more missing teeth. Your denturist will personally design an RPD to help limit movement (tipping and migrating) of your natural teeth. The design will also provide even contact between teeth to allow for better grinding/chewing of your food for easier digestion. Metal partials are preferred, as they are structurally superior, thinner, and more hygienic than an acrylic partial. By replacing any missing natural teeth with an RPD, a natural appearance and speech clarity is restored, along with the ability to chew more efficiently.
Best Care for Your Needs
When do you need emergency care vs. outpatient care in a clinic or a house call?
Many patients end up in emergency frustrated by the wait. The main reasons are that there are many other people who are also very sick, or your symptoms and condition are not necessarily considered emergent. When your condition is not emergent, you will generally wait a very long time in order to see a doctor.
Try looking for care in the best setting that will serve your needs – walk-in, family doctor, emergency, or house call.
Product Review: Hemp Herbals Entourage
For many years most scientists, believed that cannabis sativa was the only plant able to produce cannabinoids that activate the endocannabinoid system. Thanks to research in the last few years we now know cannabis is not the only plant that produces life-enhancing cannabinoids! In fact, just about every clinical study related to the health benefits of Cannabis sativa has also been done on its power-packed cousin, Nigella sativa, with similar powerful results! Ingredients: Nigella sativa (Black Seed) Oil, Cannabis sativa (Hemp) Oil, Copaifera officinalis (Copaiba) Oil, Humulus lupulus (Hops) Oil, Helichrysum italicum (Helichrysum) Oil, Curcuma longa (Turmeric) Oil, Piper nigrum (Black Pepper) Oil, Mentha piperita (Peppermint) Oil. HBnaturalsstore.ca info@hbnaturalsstore.ca
Essential Oils for Stress Relief
Scents are powerful — a simple smell can immediately trigger a powerful memory, place, or person. Scents have power to evoke emotions and memories instantly and can directly impact our bodies through our nervous system. If you experience stress (like most of us) – relaxation is only a whiff away! The best essential oils for de-stressing include rose, clary sage, frankincense, lavender, bergamot, marjoram, ylang-ylang, lemon, geranium, orange, sandalwood, chamomile, and vetiver. An easy trick for alleviating tension in 30 seconds flat? Massage an oil blend with calming scents into your temples, which are pressure points.
