Things can feel unpredictable when you have a loved one with dementia. There will be days when they can recall memories from as far back as their childhood, while other days they may seem confused and withdrawn. Over time, people with dementia require specialized care, to support families who want to do the best for their loved ones. This specialized care can be provided in care homes, or your loved one can remain in their familiar surroundings with the help of professional in-home care. In-home care providers engage and encourage their clients, while also offering helpful tips for family members.
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Plan Your Winter Getaway!
With the arrival of fall, we know that winter is inevitable. When the cold creeps in and the snow is blowing, why not get away from it all with a great vacation to somewhere warm and sunny? Travelling to the Caribbean, Hawaii, or South America can help you beat the winter blues and come home with a sun-kissed glow and a smile on your face. If you plan to travel over the busy Christmas/New Year’s season, or during Reading Week or Spring Break, it’s best to start your travel plans now to ensure your trip is exactly what you want!
Improve Your Focus & Concentration
Very often, the brain and nervous system become fatigued and overloaded. Much like a computer receiving too much data all at once, the brain can become overwhelmed, slow down, or even crash. This can result in an inability to focus, brain fog, memory loss, ADD/ADHD-like symptoms, a “wired” feeling, or the inability to cope with daily life. The key to turning these conditions around is to give the body what it needs to strengthen specific areas of the brain and nervous system. This can be achieved naturally with specialized nutritional formulations, which will replenish the body and alleviate symptoms.
Reflexology – More Than a Foot Rub!
Reflexology is a natural therapy that reduces pain, stress & tension in the body and improves circulation (cardiovascular & lymphatic) and elimination. There are reflexes in the feet which are connected to every part, organ and gland through a subtle energy that flows through channels in the body. When there is discomfort like stress, trauma, injury or illness, blockages develop in these channels and the flow of energy becomes disrupted. By applying pressure to these reflexes, signals are sent via the nervous system that release these blockages, relax the body and balance the natural functioning elsewhere in the body. It is a total ‘reboot and rebalance’!
Avoiding Whiplash Injuries
Whiplash is an impact or blow that causes your head to jerk forward or backward and can cause neck strain. The sudden force stretches and strains the muscles and tendons in your neck. Reduce your risk by ensuring the top of the head restraint in your vehicle is at least level with the top of your head. Position the head restraint so it’s as close to the back of your head as possible. Whiplash injuries respond well when assessed and treated by a physiotherapist. Prescribed exercise programs focused on stretching and strengthening are effective in managing these types of injuries.
Medication Review with a Pharmasave Pharmacist
Taking your medication properly is one of the most effective ways to manage chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol. Up to 25% of Canadians are admitted to the hospital annually because they don’t take their medications as prescribed. Schedule a Medication Review with your Pharmasave Pharmacist to discuss how to take your medications and for how long, understand if your medications are working properly, manage potential side effects and help you stay on track. Get the most from your medications with a Medication Review.
Boosting Your Body’s Biofeedback
In the metatarsal part of your foot (the ball of your foot), you have over 2,000 receptors, each designed to give biofeedback to your brain. This feedback system is your neurological system. The brain uses that feedback to create homeostasis, or balance in your body of your various biological systems. VoxxLife’s HPT technology is based on decades of research and improves that biofeedback so your brain can better achieve homeostasis. By improving homeostasis in the brain, you put your body’s “self-healing mechanism” in the best position to work on your overall wellness.
Access Consciousness
The target of Access Consciousness is to help get people to the point where they are conscious enough to create change within themselves, so that it is also possible to change everything that is not working for them in their everyday life. Once people begin to be more conscious, it will be easier to thrive in the face of the shifts that are occurring everywhere on the planet right now. There are courses available for helping you get real-life tools you can use and showing you how to get where you would like to be. Are you ready to invest in YOU?
Product Spotlight: CanPrev® Adrenal-Pro™
Chronic stress puts a high demand on your adrenal glands and taxes them to the point of exhaustion. When your adrenal glands are over-worked, you may need to seek support. Some signs of adrenal fatigue include low energy, body aches, low blood pressure, unexplained weight loss, and lightheadedness. CanPrev® Adrenal-Pro™ is a blend of adaptogenic herbs and nutrients used in herbal medicine, such as Siberian Ginseng, Ashwagandha, Schisandra, Rhodiola, Astragalus and B Vitamins. Adrenal Pro™ is specially formulated to provide an improved to help improve mental and physical performance and the ability to better manage stress.
Keep Your Brain Alive
The key to keeping your brain strong and healthy is to break routines and to use all five senses in unexpected ways. Our senses are the conduits the brain uses for its entire contact with the outside world. Close your eyes and walk through a room. In seconds, your world changes radically. Sounds, smells, and spatial memories of your physical surroundings leap into consciousness. With vision gone, your sense of touch suddenly becomes paramount. Navigating even a familiar environment is a real challenge and your brain goes into high alert. An active brain is a healthy brain. “Use it or lose it.” Maintaining brain health involves physical and mental exercise, stress management, and a healthy diet. Help is available.
Ayurveda Yoga Lifestyle Wisdom
Ayurveda is a conscious lifestyle for vibrant health effected through dietary guidelines and daily and seasonal routines. It addresses the mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of the individual. Yoga deals mostly with honing our ability to focus our mind and increases mental balance and clarity. Yogic methods include breathing practices, mantra, physical postures and meditation.
Are you looking for a personal practice that will touch every part of your life? Together we can create a personalized daily Ayurveda yoga routine you can do on your own. We begin where you are.
