With hospitals around the country reporting a recent drop in the number of stroke cases arriving in their emergency rooms, some health experts suspect that...
Category - Seniors
By Mary Petersen, Signal Staff Writer As March blurred into April and now April into May, we’ve grown accustomed to losing track of days and feeling a little...
You may not want to consider a time when you might not be able to fully take care of yourself, but the reality is there is almost a 70% chance someone turning...
By Mary Petersen, Signal Staff Writer I’ve made masks for the family, donned rubber gloves to go to the store, practiced yoga via stream classes. I even...
Millions of elderly and incapacitated individuals find long-term care facilities are the safest places to reside and receive both medical care and assistance...
If you’re a senior with diabetes, you’re not alone. The statistics are eye opening — more than 25% of Americans age 65 and older have diabetes, according to...
Arthritis has name recognition, even among people who are not suffering from it. But despite that recognition, arthritis is not as well understood as one might...
If you worry that you or someone you love will get heart disease or even have a heart attack, it’s understandable. Heart disease is the leading cause of death...
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that primarily affects movement. In the earliest stages of Parkinson’s, an affected person’s face...
My daughter’s friend recently lost his mother to cancer three weeks after her diagnosis. She was only 68. It was painful to witness the grief that her friend...
