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Broad Street Insights is a helpful blog on modern concierge home care, carefully curated by our expert team.
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A Better Aging Brain Through Un-Focused Time
There’s a part of your brain, referred to as the Default Mode Network, that while at rest helps you retrieve memories, link to better creative thinking and can help you feel more connected. The good news is that the best way to tap into this part of your brain is to rest, relax and effectively “do nothing”.
Patient Safety: Preventable Harm
Patient safety or as it’s otherwise termed, “preventable harm” in health care is a public health crisis and is growing as a leading cause of death in the United States.
Royal Health
Though it cannot be denied that Queen Elizabeth II lives a safe and sheltered life, her habits have also contributed greatly to her healthy age.
Staying Active in the Winter
Being active in the winter is a great way to “get through it”.
Holiday Well-Being
The Holidays are a great opportunity to look for signs of well-being (or not) in your elders. Behavioral changes and shifts in level of vitality can be helpful “first clues” to the progression of age-related challenges.
Yoga for Health: Elderly
After time, activity takes its toll on the body. No one knows this better than an older adult who struggles to remain fit, but who also doesn’t want to further their decline with more pain or injury. Yoga, as a method of intentional movement, stretching and breath is a great way to gently include exercise into your day.
Loss of Smell with Age, and What it Means
If your ability to smell declines, it can affect your diet and nutrition, physical well-being, and everyday safety.
The Blue that Creeps up on You: Depression & Aging
Aging isn’t always fun. You slowly lose the nimble capacity of brain and body, your senses decline and your social network dwindles due to not being in the workplace full-time, possibly being single and having family living away from the home. It’s no wonder depression is one of the 15 top concerns for adults 65 and over.
Aging and Getting in Shape
Much of the way exercise is presented, marketing for gyms or products, lead us to believe it’s something that requires lots of effort and added scheduling. But the reality is that activity is activity.
Home Care Sleep Tips for Older Adults
Older adults need 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. A good night’s sleep helps improve concentration and memory formation, allows your body to repair any cell damage that occurred during the day, and refreshes your immune system, which in turn helps to prevent disease.
Bone Health and Fracture Prevention for the Elderly
You don’t need to be diagnosed with Osteoporosis in order to consider the health of your bones. Being aware of nutrition and exercise can build confidence in your ability to remain healthy and prevent fracture.
Ways to Turn Your Daily Activities into Exercise Moves
We know that daily activity can add up, but have you ever considered how it might become an exercise routine in itself? In addition, there are ways to do these activities that can prevent physical strain or damage. Here are some tips for how to consciously target your efforts to maximize fitness.
Happy Feet
Our feet are the underdog of our physical history; they have carried us for years. We tend to forget how much they have worked for us and as we age, we need to give them a bit more love and appreciation.
Nutrient Dense Foods – Add Them Into Your Rotation
Ddid you know that certain foods, while varied in their makeup of nutrients, actually provide more nutrients for their volume than other foods? Welcome to Nutrient Dense Foods!
Staying Active. Make it a Long Term Goal
Broad Street Home Care can help you actively support a new exercise routine with the help of our personal assistants who will help monitor your progress and help motivate you to stay on track and set new goals.
Healthy Eating at Home: Fuel for Healthy Senior Living
As a leader in home care, it is Broad Street’s mission to ensure our members age successfully, remaining active and engaged in life and with family for years to come. The question is how do we reach this goal?
Broad Street Introduces the Stay Young Program
The Stay Young Program combines physical exercise, healthy nutrition and mental stimulation into a defined program designed to improve overall health and independence, all in the comfort of our clients’ homes.