Proper Oral Hygiene Practices Crucial Within Long-Term Care
Clean teeth, Clean Health
With over 1.4 million residents living in some type of long term care facilities the need for daily and annual oral health services are crucial. Ensuring that proper oral health practices are carried out within these facilities can be crucial to the quality of health for these residents. Certain practices can help prevent tissues such as gum disease, dirty dentures, or other impurities and complications. Aside from giving you a beautiful smile, taking proper care of your teeth does so much more for your overall health. Your oral health[…]
Sleeping Better With Age
Health Concerns
At the age of 50 many health concerns can begin to arise. Conditions such as arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and countless other serious health complications may become more prevalent. Another major concern that if often overlooked by many are the risks associated with lack of sleep. Lack of sleep can actually have a large impact on your overall health. A poor sleeping schedule can encourage premature aging, brain fog, a weakened immune system, as well as countless other negatives. Still countless individuals may suffer from insomnia and other sleeping disorders.[…]
Exercise Can Improve Memory
Exercise & the Brain
You have probably been advised that exercise can be beneficial to your healthy countless times but have you ever wondered why? Other than creating healthy habits how and why does exercise positively affect our bodies? The truth is exercise can be beneficial on many levels as it can aid with weight loss, muscles growth, and mobility however it can also improve your brain/memory health. During exercise our bodies release a hormone that could possibly improve our memory and overall health. This hormone could possibly help our memories, treat obesity[…]
Five Healthy & Delicious Pescetarian 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. Here you can find news, videos, and “Feature Friday’s Healthy Recipes”, available to you every Friday.
This Friday’s Featured recipe includes five healthy Pescetarian friendly recipes for you to try! These meals look and taste great and are all great options! (Please note none of these recipes belong to LTC TREE)
Ahi Tuna Poke[…]
Long-Term Care Helps Ease Stress
Long-term Care
Most people will need some type of long term care or know someone who will need it in their life. The impact that health and age have on a person really increases the older you get. At some point you will have to make a decision for yourself or for a family member. The list of reasons as to why a person may need Long term care services can be from a chronic illness, aging, or an accident that has caused them to need some type of help with their daily[…]
Tips On Planning For Retirement
Planning for Retirement
When planning for retirement a big mistake that most people make is not preparing for healthcare expenses. Most people aren’t sure what the costs are or where to begin to save for these future expenses. One of the first steps in planning for future is to make sure that you are bringing meaning and purpose to your everyday life. In a recent study at Oxford University researchers suggest that bringing meaning to your life has good effects on health and aging. They found that 15% of people who had purpose for[…]