Providing long-term care for a loved one can be very taxing and time-consuming. With spring around the corner we are all itching to leave our cozy winter hearths and get back to being active. By bringing in in-home elder care, you can take time to care for your own health. Care for you loved ones frees up time for tackling your next challenge and helps ensure that you can enjoy the good things in life, going forwards. If you or someone you know would benefit from in home care, reach out to explore the options available.

Sometimes people find it very difficult to accept help. With many seniors, accepting help seems like losing independence. Many feel that admitting you need help tells the world that you are no longer able to live on your own. Installing a medical alarm system can actually increase your independence and reduce the risks of living alone or being left alone in your home. In fact, with a locally monitored system, you may be able to remain in your own home, comforted by the fact that if something should happen, help is just a button push away.

Ozone therapy in combination with injection therapy results in about 75% of chronic pain sufferers to become permanently pain free. Chronic pain occurs in areas of the body that contain ligaments, cartilage or articular surfaces which typically have only 1/10th the circulation that is seen in other connective tissues. This makes them especially vulnerable to the effects of decreased oxygen utilization and aging, which further compromises circulation. When these areas become traumatized a significant amount of edema and inflammation only serve to further decrease circulation. Prolozone therapy with natural anti-inflammatory medications, vitamins & minerals gives the tissues what they need to heal.

Moving to a new place can be very unsettling for anyone but is particularity unsettling for people with memory loss. Signs of a great residence include well designed living spaces that feel homey and inviting where the decorations, lighting and outdoor landscaping are welcoming and consistent to reduce decision fatigue. Look for a care plan that provides amenities and activities that are tailored to individual need and cognitive ability. Residents should be encouraged to decorate their rooms with familiar furnishings to remind them they are home, they are unique, and they are still the person they’ve always been.

Dental implants are the most natural way to restore missing teeth. They distribute the forces back to the bone where they naturally belong. This is in contrast to partial dentures or bridgework that places the force of the missing tooth on the neighboring teeth, leading to a higher risk to their damage and or loss. As well, the bone where the missing tooth is will continue to shrink away with time. This leads to the loss of bony support on the neighboring teeth adding further risk to their future. The placement of dental implants will actually stop this “”bone shrinking”” process and preserve, not damage the neighboring teeth.

Elegance Sculpting is the premier destination for your laser services & spa needs in Parksville. They offer high quality laser services to their guests utilizing advanced and innovative techniques. This full service laser clinic is committed to helping you transform your beauty regime while enjoying a relaxing and rejuvenating in-clinic experience, every time. Their non-invasive, cutting-edge body contouring technology will help you on your journey to becoming the best version of yourself. Come see the clinic during their Open House on March 6; 5 – 8pm for demos, gifts and door prizes.

Did you know that music players can produce max volumes of 100 decibels or more? At that level, hearing damage can occur within 15 minutes! A good song or a loud environment can tempt us to turn up the volume on our music players, but listening to music too loudly can, over time, cause permanent damage to our hearing. In fact, hearing loss is on the rise in teens and young adults due to loud noise exposure. Consider wearing over-the-ear headphones. These headphones (also known as supra-aural earphones) sit on your ear rather than in them like ear buds and canal phones. They have a band that stretches over your head. Supra-aural earphones don’t send sound vibrations directly into your eardrum. A consistently direct sound vibration hitting your ear drum can, over time, damage your hearing.

If you experience headaches, try Acupuncture to alleviate your pain! There are four main types of headache: tension, cluster, sinus and migraine. Headaches are typically caused by triggers, such as food, stress, hormones, dehydration and weather. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the goal is to diagnose the root cause of the headache, not to just treat the symptoms. After diagnosing the correct cause of the headache, the acupuncture treatment facilitates blood flow, treats the underlining cause and alleviates pain.