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Tips for Your Nursing Facility – Keeping Residents Active

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  Nursing facility residents should be kept active to stave off depression, prevent falls, and maintain a positive outlook on life. In order to keep your residents engaged and active, you’ll need to have activities that they enjoy. Many nursing home residents spend most of their day sleeping, so activities that require them to get up and move are important in keeping them happy and healthy. Here, Mark Berger, CEO of Villa Healthcare , shares some tips for keeping your nursing facility active.  

Nursing Homes - What You Need to Know About the Benefits They Offer

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When it comes to nursing homes, there are a few things you should know. First, they offer many benefits that can help you live a more fulfilling life. Second, they can be a helpful source of care for people with diabetes and other health conditions. And finally, they can be an important part of your care if you need to move out of your home or if you need to care for a loved one who is living in a nursing home. Here, Mark Berger, founder and CEO of a nursing home and rehabilitation center , called Villa Healthcare, will share everything you want to know about nursing homes.   What nursing homes offer Mark Berger Villa Healthcare CEO shares that nursing homes offer a variety of benefits that can help you live a more fulfilling life. They may include things like increased independence, more comfortable living quarters, and better care for people with diabetes and other health conditions. What they can be used for Nursing homes can be a great place to live if you have diabete...

Sedentary Lifestyle in Older People

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A sedentary lifestyle can cause many health problems, especially in the elderly. Ending a sedentary lifestyle in the elderly is a fundamental part of personal care: only through physical activity you can have a healthier life. In this article, Mark Berger, healthcare executive owner of Villa Healthcare will give you the keys to carry it out, and will also explain the causes of sedentary lifestyle, diseases associated with sedentary life, benefits of moving and solutions to avoid it. Causes of sedentary lifestyle in older people Mark Berger Villa Healthcare explains that in general, with the passage of time, we become somewhat lazier. The affluent society in which we live does not make it very easy to encourage physical activity in any age group. An analysis of sedentary lifestyle and its causes allows us to identify some traits that are more common in the elderly. The causes of sedentary lifestyle at this stage of life are usually related to issues such as: · Lack of initiative...

Chronic Fatigue

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is the popular name for myalgic encephalomyelitis. It is characterized by chronic fatigue and exhaustion, in which symptoms of persistent and unexplained physical fatigue combine with diffuse pain, sleep disturbances, and neurocognitive and neurovegetative disorders. Its pathophysiology is controversial. It usually appears suddenly, producing a rapid deterioration in health and quality of life. Here, Mark Berger, CEO of Villa Healthcare, a nursing and rehabilitation center will explain more about this disease.

The Role of the Nurses Caring for the Elderly

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  Nursing is concerned with assessing, planning and implementing nursing care for the elderly. That is, it works to offer the best care with high quality of service to this sector of the population and its immediate surroundings. What are its goals? What functions does it perform? Where do geriatric nurses work? In this article, Mark Berger Villa Healthcare CEO is going to answer these questions and explain the basic nursing care functions. With 13% of the population currently at least 65 years old, and with 20% of the population expected to be at least 65 years old by 2030, providing care to older adults is now the health care systems' “core business” . Over the past 20 years, there has been shift in how nursing practice, education, and research are addressing the emerging health care needs of an aging society. Nurses who care for older adults need to have basic geriatric competencies as a way to assure that older adults experience appropriate nursing care. Virtually all nurses...

Providing Better Health Care for the Elderly

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The lifespan of US citizens has increased exponentially over the past century. With people living longer lives and elderly populations growing at a more rapid pace, finding ways to provide quality healthcare for these individuals has become the most important. Since there are thousands and millions of more people, living longer than ever before, now more than ever, it’s important to begin to address problems present in senior care before patients and their families suffer from an overburdened and unprepared system. Mark Berger, a healthcare executive from Chicago, expects that by 2030, more people than ever will be at risk of developing chronic diseases, ill-health and dependence that often accompany advanced old age, which will lead to increasing demands by this growing segment of the population.

Memory Problems and Alzheimer's

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Many older adults are worried about becoming forgetful. They consider forgetfulness to be the first sign of Alzheimer's disease. However, not all people with memory problems have Alzheimer's. Mark Berger Villa Healthcare CEO claims that other factors that can cause memory loss include aging, medical conditions, emotional problems, mild cognitive impairment, or another type of dementia.