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The ABCs of Heart Health

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Nearly half of all people in the United States have one of the three top risk factors of heart disease: high blood pressure, smoking, and high LDL cholesterol. Too many people make poor lifestyle decisions each day that adversely impact their heart health. Read More
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Common Signs of Cardiac Depression

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When someone you love experiences a heart attack and then suffers complications like cardiac depression, you will likely want to go through a list of steps that can be taken to ensure that the damaged heart heals and the person’s lifestyle choices that contributed to the heart attack are changed. Read More
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What You Need to Know About a TIA, a Possible Precursor to a Stroke

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Confusion. Slurred speech. Numbness that occurs on one side of the body. Sounds like a stroke, right? Then again, if those stroke-like signs subside rather quickly and are rather mild, they may be caused by a TIA (transient ischemic attack). Read More

The Benefits of Recovering at Home After Heart Surgery

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Each and every day, thousands of heart surgeries take place throughout the U.S. From open heart surgery to valve repair, there are a variety of procedures available to help people preserve an engaged lifestyle in spite of a cardiac event.  Read More

How to Recognize the Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

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CHF, or congestive heart failure, is a health condition that occurs when the heart doesn’t pump blood as efficiently as it needs to. CHF can be the result of a few different conditions, including high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. Read More

Learn the Latest Guidelines for Optimal Nutrition for Older Adults

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It’s certainly no secret that a wholesome diet is crucial for a healthy body. What many people don’t recognize, however, is that dietary recommendations for adults are altered as we age. Read More

Ensure Good Nutrition for Elderly Parents by Answering These Questions

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A mother’s love for her children has no age limit. And parents of all ages want above all else to safeguard their children from problems, which in some cases can mean hiding their own problems. Read More
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Think You Know the Best Foods for Heart Health? These Facts May Surprise You!

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Our aging care professionals understand that it’s not always easy to know which are the best foods for heart health when recommendations appear to constantly be changing. We had been told that saturated fats from options including butter, red meat and fried foods were detrimental and could influence a person’s possibilities of developing heart complications, but later studies indicated there isn’t enough proof that those who gave up these foods improved their heart health – and so, we went back to our previous ways due to the go-ahead to select butter over margarine. Read More
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Understand and Manage Senior Medications for Heart Disease with These Tips

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If you have heart disease, you know it’s vital to take your heart disease meds exactly as prescribed. But what specifically does that mean? Here are a few helpful recommendations for senior medications from Harmony Home Health & Hospice which can help you get the most from your meds: Be aware of which meds you’re taking. Read More
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Tips to Ensure Your Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Is Accurate

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Do you know how to take the most accurate blood pressure measurement at home? Read more to learn how. Health care at home is more common and easier than ever to access since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More