When you know someone who had just experienced the loss of a loved one, your immediate reaction is to reach out and offer your deepest sympathies. That’s instinctive. But sometimes, words can fail a person. Offering condolences...

Pet owners would give their right arm to verbally communicate with their beloved animals. Sometimes owners would look into their eyes, longing to discover their deepest, innermost desires. Extremely unfortunately, pet lovers have to instead use logic, expert...

The eyes are the windows to the soul. As age progresses, those windows can become a little cloudy, much like those in homes everywhere. This doesn’t mean you have to deal with a foggy view. Just as...

With everything opening back up these days, more people than ever are heading back out into the world for dinner out, date nights, and even travel. However, not everyone feels 100% confident doing this yet; and that...

We all love sipping on a good cup of tea! Earl gray. Peppermint. Green tea. Black tea. Chamomile or what about Rooibos tea? Whatever your favorite may be, the combinations and possibilities of drinking tea are endless!...

As a physical therapist, I am constantly asking my patients about the intensity of exercises I have them perform. It’s a needed question to assure I am making a patient work hard enough, but not so hard...

Walking outside is an amazing form of exercise. Completely different from walking on a treadmill inside, walking outside provides both physical and mental health benefits. Not only does it raise our heart rate, but it also gets...

 For sports fans, nothing beats seeing their favorite athletes compete at the top of their game. But a shoulder injury such as a badly torn rotator cuff threatens to pause or end the career of any athlete in...

Congratulations on your first step towards achieving better health and better shape. Life for women over 50 is not an easy period for achieving health goals. It is understandable that we are extremely anxious about all that...

Did you know that Alzheimer’s disease affects more women than men? Worldwide, women with the disease outnumber men two to one. Almost two-thirds of the 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s are women. More than two-thirds of...

In the United States, we tend to call everything we steep in hot water “tea.” Many of these best-selling steeped beverages – including peppermint, chamomile, hibiscus, and sleepy teas – are not technically tea. These are herbal...

For some reason, when we talk about the health impacts of stress, we tend to forget about our mouths. Our mouths are just as vulnerable to stress as the rest of our bodies. The past year has been...

Moving home is an exciting thing to do, even if it brings stress and disruption. Whether you’re moving to be closer to your growing family, you’re downsizing because you want to retire, or simply because you want...

The time and money that make up the process of selling your home may change over time, but it is undoubtedly your needs, circumstances, and desires that ultimately shape your final decision. Buying a new home in later...

Are you closing in on retirement age? Are you looking forward to the day when you no longer have to worry about going to work? Do you also have concerns about what your life will entail post-retirement? With...

When we were younger, we could get away bursts of running and exercise. There was no stiffness or aches the day after exercising like there is as we get older and over 50. Our young bodies were...