Can your blood type affect your health?
Humans have four different blood types – eight if you count Rh Positive and Negative. And according to a recent Swedish study, there are...
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Many signs of a heart attack aren’t this obvious
The most obvious sign of a heart attack is intense chest pain, as if an elephant were sitting on your chest. It’s also the most prevalent...
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How safe is surgery for older patients?
When it comes to surgery for older adults, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that “In modern surgery, it’s a rare event to...
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Can COVID-19 cause heart attack deaths?
In a few cases, yes. But many, many more deaths are caused by the fear of the coronavirus. “Nearly everyone dying of COVID-19 has...
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What happens when Gen X and Y caregivers are less healthy than their parents?
No one ever said that unpaid family caregivers have it easy. Some 34.2 million spend almost 26 hours a week helping with dressing and...
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You may already own the latest telemedicine diagnostic device.
It’s a smartphone with either FaceTime or Google Duo. By eliminating travel time to and from doctors’ offices, along with time-wasting...
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A totally unexpected way to get a better night’s sleep
Getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night is important for maintaining good health. The average American gets less than seven. Given...
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How worried should you be about prediabetes? (Less than you might think)
Tens of millions of Americans have been diagnosed with a condition that’s painless, has no symptoms, and is detectable only from...
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Even gut bacteria know that no two seniors are the same
Bacteria are one-cell organisms – and they’re not brain cells. Yet, they’re smart enough to become “increasingly unique (i.e.,...
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As a health predictor, how does BMI measure up?
Not very well, according to Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, the Belgian mathematician who devised the Body Mass Index in 1832. Quetelet...
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Drinking lots of water can be good for your health. Or bad.
There’s an old rule of thumb about drinking eight glasses of water a day. Is that enough? Too little? Or too much? The U.S. National...
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Now hospitals are starting to make house calls
This past August, I wrote about how COVID workarounds like remote working, telemedicine, and online grocery shopping and other services...
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Depression can be heartbreaking. Literally.
COVID-19 notwithstanding, the number one cause of death in the United States is heart disease. And one of the leading causes of heart...
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The value of monthly Registered Nurse assessments
In an effort to ensure good care, Virginia law requires senior care agencies like Senior Insights to have a Registered Nurse perform...
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5 ways to fight off compassion fatigue
Being a family caregiver has never been easy. But now, with all the added stresses from the pandemic, it’s harder than ever – so much...
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Is bulk buying a good or a bad idea? Yes
Buying groceries and other household items in bulk has always offered the chance to save money. Today, particularly for seniors, it also...
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Coronavirus or not, keeping these four health appointments is Important.
If you subtract the statistics from just three states – New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, which account for 10% of the population...
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Telemedicine isn’t just good for primary care.
Last month, as Virginia was starting to reopen, I wrote about the advantages of using telemedicine for primary care. It turns out that,...
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What To Take With All Your Prescription Meds
The older we get, the more prescription medicines we seem to need – sometimes too many. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 68...
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Once Virginia starts reopening, should you see your doctor in person?
Today, most of Virginia starts reopening. From today until at least the end of the month, restaurants, bars, breweries, wineries, places...
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