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  • Healthy Meal Prep Options

Easy Healthy Meal Prep Options

By |August 14, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

In an effort to help our clients stay healthy and avoid from using their long term care insurance policy as long as possible, we are committed to featuring health tips and tricks found on the health tab of our website. Here you can find news, videos, and “Feature Friday’s Healthy Recipes”, available to you every Friday.

This Friday’s Featured recipe includes five delicious and healthy recipes which are easy to prepare in advance and enjoy the next day! Meal prepping made easy for you.  (Please note none of these recipes belong to LTC TREE)

 

Superfood Salad[…]

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  • Long-Term Care

Even You, Will Likely Need Long-Term Care

By |August 13, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

What are the odds?

Your chances for one day needing long-term care are actually quite high and go up rapidly as you age past 65. This is why as we age, we also have a higher chance of needing long term care insurance. Whether you develop an illness, injury, or a chronic disease like Alzheimer’s or Dementia, the need for long term care can arise almost suddenly. However, this does not mean you have to be unprepared and on the contrary, you should spend time planning out your future. When considering your risk[…]

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  • Living With Diabetes

Living With Diabetes

By |August 12, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

Living with diabetes

With over 10% of the entire United States population affected by Diabetes , odds are that you might know someone currently living with Diabetes. Additionally, it is even more so prevalent in seniors with 26% of seniors in the United States living with diabetes. Perhaps this is why diabetes has been a leading cause of death in the United States for quite some time. While living diabetes can be cumbersome there are also plenty of ways to help manage your diabetes. Although many have already received their diabetes diagnosis many individuals remain undiagnosed.

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  • Bad Habits and Seniors

Bad Habits and Seniors: Coping

By |August 11, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

Habits & health

Life is compiled of a series of habits and daily choices that each individual makes on a daily basis. Habits are usually small choices we make on a habitual basis however, both “good” and “bad” habits can play a large impact on your overall quality of life. Our health, stress levels, and happiness can often be directly impacted by our daily habits. Bad habits can interrupt your life and bring upon negative implications. Just as good habits can bring upon positive life changes to your life. So why do we[…]

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  • Senior Life

Anger Can Take Years Off Your Senior Life

By |August 10, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Sadness & Anger Bad for Health

Some feelings of sadness and anger are at times inevitable, however you may want to minimize the number of these negative emotions when possible. According to recent studies anger and sadness can actually reap negative effects on your overall health. With anger having even more negative implications than sadness. As we age we may become more susceptible to feelings of upset, sadness, depression, or loneliness brought upon by aging. For one our bones may begin to weaken and our bodies may not function the way they once did. Tasks and daily functions that use to[…]

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  • Instant Pot Lunches

Five Healthy Instant Pot Lunches

By |August 7, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |

Instant Meals

In an effort to help our clients stay healthy and avoid from using their long term care insurance policy as long as possible, we are committed to featuring health tips and tricks found on the health tab of our website.

This Friday’s featured recipe includes a list of  healthy Instant Pot or pressure cooker recipes for you to try! If you have an instapot at home or are thinking of purchasing one, check these recipes out! Now you have plenty of one pot meals to test out with the whole family and[…]

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