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New Jersey Elders at Home – Avoid Stroke & Heart Disease

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New Jersey’s Expert Home Care for Elders and Seniors provides care for your aging loved ones since 1984. Please call us if your elder lives alone, we provide quality and fulfilling senior care companionship in New Jersey - 800-848-2336.

One is the loneliest number for NJ seniors and elders…and unhealthy, to boot.

Loneliness is a major risk factor in increasing blood pressure in older people, and because of this could increase the risk of death by stroke and heart disease.

In a paper titled, “Loneliness is a Unique Predictor of Age-Related Differences in Systolic Blood Pressure,” published in the journal Psychology and Aging, researchers Louise Hawkley and John Cacioppo found lonely people between the ages of 50 and 68 had blood pressure readings that were as much as 30 points higher than non-lonely people, even when other contributing factors were taken into consideration.

“Loneliness is a complex physiological phenomenon that incorporates feelings of dysphoria (opposite of euphoria) and stress, dissatisfaction with social support and hostility toward others,” according to the paper. It already has been associated with higher incidences of other health issues, including alcoholism, depression and insomnia, and even impaired immune functions.

Expert Home Care recommends that elders living alone – create more activity outside the home. Rrequent visits to your local senior center can help and it’s not costly. Ask us! We can help - 800-848-2336.

Glen Hast, Certified Senior Advisors

NJ Home Health for Elders – Immune Health

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Tips for NJ elders on Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. Contact your physician, if you are exhibiting any of these warning signals and consider making changes in order to boost your immune system.

1. Eight or more new ear infections within one year.
2. Two or more serious sinus infections within 1 year.
3. Two or more months on antibiotics with little effect.
4. Two or more pneumonias within 1 year.
5. Failure of an infant to gain weight or grow normally.
6. Recurrent, deep skin or organ abscesses.
7. Persistent thrush in mouth or elsewhere on skin, after age 1.
8. Need for intravenous antibiotics to clear infections.
9. Two or more deep-seated infections such as sepsis, meningitis or cellulitis.
10. A family history of primary immune deficiency.

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Elder Care – Home care safety for NJ Seniors

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Expert Home Care – A New Jersey Senior Care, Elder Care, and Live-In Home care agency sponsors a Live Focus on Senior Radio program on wsRadio.com. Hosts are David Goodman, President of Expert Home Care New Jersey and Frank Esposito, Vice President of Expert Home Care New Jersey.

Senior Safety at Home in New Jersey
 
The average “senior citizen” in NJ can do the following to ensure their safety at home:
 
1. Every senior should eliminate hazardous items that could cause a fall to occur.

2. Equip your bathrooms, bathtubs and shower stalls with grab bars that are securely attached.

3. All rugs must be secured with non-slip backing pads.

4. Maintain an active lifestyle. Being physically activity and stretching exercises keeps muscles strong.

5. Engage in as many activities that are healthy and fun.

6. Eat a well balanced diet. 

7. Remember: staying active and seeing your doctor regularly will not only help you to avoid falls, but will help you manage any health problems that already exist.

Live-in Home Care Seniors – New Jersey Elders Sleep Better

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Social historians say Americans are sleeping less. In the 18th and 19th centuries, people averaged 9.5 hours of sleep a night. Today, people in the U.S. sleep an average of 7.5 hours. In Canada, the average is 8.2 hours.
There is no formula for how much sleep is enough for you. Some people need ten hours, and some get along fine on six. But, one thing that is certain for everyone is that not getting enough sleep takes a toll on one’s mental health.

The loss of a night’s sleep results in irritability, fatigue and mood shifts. It undermines creativity, flexibility, originality, and the ability to deal with unfamiliar situations.

How can you make up for lost sleep? Don’t try to do it with a long afternoon nap. That can cause insomnia, and another miserable day tomorrow. Rather, experts say, you should go to sleep 15 or 20 minutes earlier each week until you are sleeping enough to eliminate daytime sleepiness.

The demands of jobs, community, and family can make it difficult to get enough rest, but the quality of sleep can also help to make up the difference. That means that if you get six hours of good sleep it is better than eight hours of interrupted or poor sleep.

Here are some tips on how to get restful sleep:

  • Try to eliminate noise and light.
  • Keep regular hours.
  • Cut down on stimulants like caffeine.
  • Don’t go to bed stuffed or starved.
  • Develop a nightly ritual that sends signals to your body that it’s time to sleep.
  • Sleep on a good mattress.

Regular exercise can also help relieve both physical and mental tension – as long as you don’t exercise too close to bedtime and help prepare your body for a good night’s sleep: that magical state of non-consciousness your body uses to restore itself.

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