THIS ARTICLE by the National Institute on Aging provides a multitude of resources for discussing sensitive or embarrassing topics with your doctor and other health care professionals. We at Nurse Professionals Home Care understand the need for transparent and honest relationships between patients and their healthcare providers. However, we understand there are some things many …
We invite you to read THIS STUDY published in June of 2016 regarding cognition as a function of diet quality. Specifically this study explains attention, cognitive flexibility, perceptual speed, and visuospatial ability all appear to be contingent on high quality diets (as outlined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans) and can be improved incrementally with …
As a predominately rural community on the Eastern Shore, we have unique opportunities for fitness all around us. THIS ARTICLE by BMC Geriatrics highlights one of the lesser known of these opportunities; Orienteering. This activity involves using a map and compass to navigate unfamiliar terrain. As this study details orienteering presents an opportunity for both …
Nurse Professionals Home Care has many patients, almost all of whom take some sort of medication. We realize keeping all these pills in order can become increasingly difficult as we age, and because of this we are promoting THIS ARTICLE by the National Institute of Health on strategies to manage medications. We all struggle with …
At Nurse Professionals Home Care we understand the struggles families have with aging adults. No matter where you live, Ocean City, MD., Oceans Pines, MD., Berlin, MD., Salisbury, MD., or Bethany Beach, DE., you need to be informed on the ways Depression can affect our lives. So many elderly people are not aware of all the available information or treatments to …