What Your Fingernails Say About Your Health

What Your Fingernails Say About Your Health

Fingernails are not just decoration or tools for picking splinters. They can also reveal a lot about an individual’s health, especially as he or she gets older. Changes in the color, shape, texture, or growth of nails can indicate various medical conditions, some of...
Blood Thinners: Risks and Benefits

Blood Thinners: Risks and Benefits

Today, many seniors take anticoagulants which keep blood “thin” thus preventing clots that may lead to coronary artery disease, deep vein thrombosis, a stroke or a heart attack or complications following some surgeries.  In reality, anti-coagulants do not actually...
Elder Orphans

Elder Orphans

Elder Orphans are those individuals who are widowed or not married, live alone and have no family (or none they can count on.) They are going through the last years of their lives on their own. Everything can be just fine until something like declining health happens...