Sunrise Senior Living

It’s a fact of life.  It takes a strong back to be a caregiver.  You can easily find yourself lifting hundreds of pounds in a single day, including, from time to time, your loved one.  Since your ability to continue helping your loved one depends on your ability to keep your back healthy, it only makes sense to take precautions when lifting or bending.  

Sunrise Senior Living

Almost half of all prescriptions in the United States are filled by generic drugs, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion. Generic drugs cost as much as 80 percent less than their brand-name equivalents, creating the assumption their quality and effectiveness have in some way been compromised. And quite naturally, many people resist using them simply because their HMOs and insurance companies prefer they do.

By Kelly Malick

Many people mistakenly believe that hearing aids will solve all of their woes and make everything around them sound perfectly clear. The truth is that hearing devices make it easier for one to communicate with one's friends and family, but they are corrective devices like eyeglasses and cannot completely cure hearing loss. What they can do, however, is help maximize one's hearing ability and improve one's quality of life greatly. It is simply important to know what to realistically expect to get the most out of your hearing aids.

By Susan Homitz - an audiologist for America Hears 

Today, almost everyone has a cell phone – young and old – and it can be a challenge for users of digital hearing aids to know how to handle their phones properly. Issues such as feedback and distortion can arise, as can conflicts between cell phone and hearing aid technology, and the hearing aid user may be tempted to throw both the hearing aids and the cell phone out the window. But the truth is that cell phone and hearing aid technology can coexist without major problems – it just takes a little research.