Source: Cost of living comparison
Cost of living comparison
Can we downsize now that we are over 50 yrs of age? There are many ways we can save by reuse, recycle and downsizing our standards of living. At 50, we can prepare for a second career that will be our retirement activity.
Know your strengths and think early with proper planning, you can find your way to another way of working and earning with fun and satisfaction. Email Connie if you are a woman over age 50 at motherhealth@gmail.com for many options in your career, retirement and owning a business this 2016.
You can be in the health industry, Uber, or health service such as senior care. You choose the kind of life you want to spend half of your life. Do not forget to build relationships with love ones and new ones with a smile and positive attitude each day. When tired, rest before presenting yourself to the world. As you face the world with enthusiasm and positive spirit so will the world give you the same.
Visiting Nurses and Health pros reaching out to seniors
Visiting Nurses and Health pros reaching out to seniors
Visiting nurses help prevent emergencies. They provide one on one care at home and for others who live alone, they are part of the family and core support group providing care with love and compassion.
Other health pros and allied health such as acupuncturists, naturopaths, massage therapists, physical therapists, caregivers, cooks, drivers, herbalists, home helpers and family members form as part of the core team in providing care.
To avoid burn out as health care pros, do get a massage, find ways for relaxation and time out, nourish your body with whole foods and proper deitary supplementation with herbs, essential oils and other healing ways.
Get health insurance in the absence of one, save for retirement and network with others for retirement options when you plan to retire later.
I am inviting health care pros such as visiting nurses and other core health teams to help Motherhealth to reach out to as many seniors as marketing partners and co-owners of Motherhealth with the goal of providing in home caregivers to home bound seniors. You will earn referral fees and management fees in finding seniors and matching them with caregivers in surrounding cities where you live in the bay area, California and USA. Please email motherhealth@gmail.com or 408-8541883 for more info. There is no need to spend money on franchise fees. Business ownership in 2016 can be facilitated much more efficiently with the internet. More and more ways of marketing are identified and others become obsolete like the newspaper.
All of us can save each other from health care costs as we age reach 65 plus. Email motherhealth@gmail.com of any cost saving tips for health care, aside from going abroad for affordable health care.
Each family member can learn caregiving ways and have their parents live with them to cut in home health care costs or older adults should downsize to prepare for health care costs and retirement.
Calling all 50 yr old plus women in the US who are trying to find ways to supplement their income. There are many ways to earn, survive and live within our means and still enjoy the simple things in life.
Caring for parents by gen X
Source: Caring for parents by gen X
Caring for parents by gen X
Most common issues with ailing parents, age 70 to 100 are: lack of appetite, lack of sleep, chronic conditions such as cough, pain, constipation, UTI, anxiety, depression, pneumonia, kidney and liver health issues from polypharmacy, med addiction, arthritis, inflammation and other degenerative health issues. It is very difficult when a spouse care for her ailing husband. She forgets to care for herself. It is also harder for Generation X, the sandwich generation to care for their parents and children at the same time and care for themselves at 50s who are experiencing more health issues.
Contact Motherhealth at motherhealth@gmail.com or text at 408-854-1883 when you need a live in caregiver in the bay area for your home bound seniors.
In the US, health care costs are higher and meds are more expensive.
There are many ways,tools, and support group that we can use to care for ourselves and our parents. Caregivers hourly or live in can provide respite when we need to rest from caring for our parents. Nutrition drinks such as Glucerna, Ensure or Boost can be used to provide nourishment to our seniors who do not have big appetite but needs to eat every 3 hours.
Medications have many side effects so review the timing of meds which can make our seniors pee more often at night which interrupt their sleep and so they nap more during the day when they need to get sunshine and walking exercise and daily routine of 3 meals, stimulation and snacks.
Our dietary supplements should be taken during the day as they are mostly stimulants to get us more sleep during the night. Calcium and magnesium and melatonin which help us sleep more should be taken late afternoon.
The goal of many in home caregivers is to allow our seniors to thrive and be active in the comfort of their homes. We use short-stay nursing homes for respite care, care homes for longer stay in company of 6 other senior clients with two caregivers. A hospice nurse or care attends to senior in care homes or in their own homes. Many times when we stop all meds because the senior is under hospice care, they live for more than 2 years instead 6months which their doctor told them so. Many seniors in care homes who have taken so many meds every day and for many years, have easily bruised tissues because of the acidity of medications.
We can learn from each other in the way we care for our parents. Please email your stories to motherhealth@gmail.com .
Remember to use your memory or lose it, use your muscles or lose it and experience life each day with less worries but with more learning and activity to nourish the soul and body. Children and grandparents should share their lives more with each other.
Older adults caring for their parents should seek caregiving support. In the bay area, 408-854-1883 motherhealth@gmail.com is for caring caregivers 4hrs or live in. Also call if you need referrals to care homes in the bay area since your seniors decided to downsize and sell their homes and stay in assisted living senior apartments or care homes instead.
Do visit our seniors in care homes, take them out every Sunday and give them massage for 20min or more. Hospice means our parents do not or cannot eat anymore with diminishing health issues and the doctor or care home admin suggests for hospice care. Dying at home is the most preferred way for many surrounded by love ones.
It is very challenging to live with others in a senior care facility. Private rooms are more expensive but 24 hr care is available with meals and many other caregiving services that would help families with other obligations at work, their own children and just visit their our parents in care homes or nursing homes.
No matter where you want to spend your sick days, at home or care home or nursing home, plan your health early with support or network of providers and please do not over medicate. Signs of cancer include: lose of sleep, lose of appetite and chronic health issues such as coughing and pain. Signs of Alzheimer and Dementia are lose of memory. Signs of stroke are inability to talk, move muscles in the body and face, eyes health issues and more. Do inspect your feet and eyes often as your feet and eyes tell more about your health issues than other parts of your body.
Seaweed, calcium,less sugar,aloe vera and grass fed meat to help lose weight
Seaweed, calcium,less sugar,aloe vera and grass fed meat to help lose weight
My co-worker, 23 yr old female, is fasting on liquid detox of lemon water for 5 days. I asked her if she consulted a nutritionist and she said no.
I gave her a spill that when we wake up our body needs protein. Stress and sleep affect our ability to shed extra pounds. Our adrenal glands and thyroid glands should be healthy. I checked her eyes, in particular her iris. I do not see rust colored spots, clear looking which means that she is not prone to depression.
Losing weight will give us 74% chances or more of not getting Alzheimer’s and other chronic and degenerative disease.
The following foods can help you lose weight:
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Seaweeds are rich in catechins – a flavonoids and polyphenols that capture stray electrons from free radicals
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Calcium and magnesium rich foods such as yogurt and nuts to speed up weight loss
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Aloe vera helps in treating adult diabetes
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Grass fed meat and butter – CLA rich food sources – cut abdominal fat regulating insulin
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Whole foods with low sugar content
Why do many women are enticed to fast, do a liquid detox or be skinny? One reason must be the skinny jeans and clothes that we try to fit in our bodies. I for one is guilty of it. I like spandex material that fits my curves. Recently, I opted for no wire bra to allow more oxygen flow in my body.
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Join us to stop sugar addiction and in the opportunity to start your life past 50. Calling all women in their 50s to lead the way to health and prosperity that starts this 2016.
Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms
Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms
Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of a disregard for other people’s rights, often crossing the line and violating those rights. It usually begins in childhood or as a teen and continues into their adult lives.
Antisocial personality disorder is often referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy in popular culture. However, neither psychopathy nor sociopathy are recognized professional labels used for diagnosis.
Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be callous, cynical, and contemptuous of the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others. They may have an inflated and arrogant self-appraisal (e.g., feel that ordinary work is beneath them or lack a realistic concern about their current problems or their future) and may be excessively opinionated, self-assured, or cocky. They may display a glib, superficial charm and can be quite voluble and verbally facile (e.g., using technical terms or jargon that might impress someone who is unfamiliar with the topic).
Lack of empathy, inflated self-appraisal, and superficial charm are features that have been commonly included in traditional conceptions of psychopathy and may be particularly distinguishing of Antisocial Personality Disorder in prison or forensic settings where criminal, delinquent, or aggressive acts are likely to be nonspecific. These individuals may also be irresponsible and exploitative in their sexual relationships.
A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the norm of the individual’s culture. The pattern is seen in two or more of the following areas: cognition; affect; interpersonal functioning; or impulse control. The enduring pattern is inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations. It typically leads to significant distress or impairment in social, work or other areas of functioning. The pattern is stable and of long duration, and its onset can be traced back to early adulthood or adolescence.
Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is diagnosed when a person’s pattern of antisocial behavior has occurred since age 15 (although only adults 18 years or older can be diagnosed with this disorder) and consists of the majority of these symptoms:
- Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
- Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
- Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
- Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
- Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
- Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
- Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another
There should also be evidence of Conduct Disorder in the individual as a child, whether or not it was ever formally diagnosed by a professional.
Because personality disorders describe long-standing and enduring patterns of behavior, they are most often diagnosed in adulthood. It is uncommon for them to be diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, because a child or teen is under constant development, personality changes and maturation. According to the DSM-5, antisocial personality disorder cannot be diagnosed in people younger than 18 years old.
Antisocial personality disorder is 70 percent more prevalent in males than females. The 12-month prevalence rate of this disorder is between 0.2 and 3.3 percent.
Like most personality disorders, antisocial personality disorder typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in the 40s or 50s.
Source: http://psychcentral.com/disorders/antisocial-personality-disorder-symptoms/
Cough remedies from Dr Mercola
Source: Cough remedies from Dr Mercola
Cough remedies from Dr Mercola
| Avoid mucus-forming foods, such as milk, flour, and eggs, as well as sugar | Eat light foods such as vegetables, soups with garlic, ginger and herbal teas | Homeopathic remedies for pertussis include Coccus cacti and the nosode. Pertussin. Drosera is recommended for coughing fits followed by gagging, retching, or vomiting. Cuprum may be indicated for coughing fits followed by gasping for air, difficulty breathing, or that end in exhaustion |
| Wild cherry bark lozenges may soothe your throat | Keep well hydrated | Try up to 5,000 milligrams of vitamin C daily for seven days |
| Keep your room and home well-ventilated and free of smoke | Use a warm air humidifier with essential oils (try basil, cyprus, marjoram, thyme, wintergreen, tea tree, camphor, lavender, chamomile, peppermint, or eucalyptus) | Massage essential oils with a carrier oil (like coconut oil) into the patient’s chest or back |
| Acupuncture may be beneficial (and its effects for whooping cough are recognized by the World Health Organization) | Rest and avoid exertion | Arrange pillows so the patient can be more upright while sleeping |
| Boil fresh ginger root in water for 20 minutes, then add the water to a foot bath to soak feet for up to 20 minutes | Heat a pan of water to just boiling, then add a few drops of oil of thyme. Have the patient breathe in the steam from the pan (cover his or her head with a towel, being careful to avoid getting burned) | Keep skin hydrated by massaging in coconut oil daily |
Strategy to fix health care
Source: Strategy to fix health care
Strategy to fix health care
Health consumers want to email their doctors, have cheaper drugs, can access an array of allied health pros – integrative care team from acupuncturists, massage therapists, herbalists, naturopathic docs, and more, and caregiving costs for seniors must be shouldered by their health insurance, and so many other health care issues.
Below are strategies written by the pros at:
https://hbr.org/2013/10/the-strategy-that-will-fix-health-care
In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried countless incremental fixes—attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better “consumers,” implementing electronic medical records—but none have had much impact.
Maximizing value for patients
It’s time for a fundamentally new strategy. At its core is maximizing value for patients: that is, achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what patients need.
Patient Outcomes and Full Range of Services
We must shift the focus from the volume and profitability of services provided—physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests—to the patient outcomes achieved. And we must replace today’s fragmented system, in which every local provider offers a full range of services, with a system in which services for particular medical conditions are concentrated in health-delivery organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care.
Integrative Care
The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients’ medical conditions rather than physicians’ medical specialties, measuring costs and outcomes for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform.
Cleveland Clinic and Germany’s Schön Klinik
The transformation to value-basedCleveland Clinic and Germany’s Schön Klinik health care is well under way. Some organizations, such as the , have undertaken large-scale changes involving multiple components of the value agenda. The result has been striking improvements in outcomes and efficiency, and growth in market share.