Relieving Stress and Depression for Healthy Aging
It is a well-proven fact that stress and depression can shorten your life span and drastically reduce your quality of life.
It is a well-proven fact that stress and depression can shorten your life span and drastically reduce your quality of life. Stress can speed up the aging process and your body finds it harder to fight off illness and serious disease.
Stress and depression affect your immune system and you may find you have more frequent colds, stomach problems, and other stress related problems. You can age gracefully and maintain better health if you take steps to ward off depression and stress.
What are some fun and helpful ways of relieving stress and depression? There are a few tips that may help you make the most of every day.
* Eat healthy! This means stay away from refined sugar, empty calorie snack foods, and fatty meats. There are many choices of snacks and foods that will keep your body satisfied and feeling full. Eating chocolate or sugar products will not help depression. These foods may increase your symptoms of stress and depression. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains. You could be surprised how much better you will feel by removing processed sugars from your diet!
* Exercise regularly. Physical exercise is important for many reasons. It keeps your body from growing stiff, decreases stress, and allows you to take in oxygen that is needed for the body to work properly. Start out walking or doing low impact exercises or yoga. Walk around the block, listen to the sounds of nature and let your mind go blank. If you are just beginning an exercise program, check with your doctor before you begin. A little exercise is better than no exercise at all.
Healthy Aging Exercise
Improving the quality of life in aging adults should be the priority of families, doctors, and health providers.
Encouraging healthy aging means encouraging healthier lifestyles. Healthy lifestyles should begin long before a person begins the aging process. Learning to eat a healthy diet, not smoking, limiting your intake of alcohol, and staying physically active will help give you a longer lifespan and improve your quality of life.
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* Adopt a pet. It is well-known that a family pet will help relieve stress and anxiety. Nursing homes are allowing pets to be brought in because they have such a positive benefit on residents. Many senior communities and assisted living facilities allow pets and even encourage them. Play with your pet, stroke it or pet it, you will feel the tension slip away.
* Take time to relax. You may feel you always have to be on the go, or doing something. You don't! Take the time to relax, drink a cup of tea or coffee and sit in a sunny room. Weather is gloomy? Watch the ever-changing patterns in the sky, the trees as they bend in the wind, and listen to the soothing sound of rain on the roof.
If you fall victim to winter or gloomy weather, work each day to make yourself enjoy the day. Find something you are thankful for, call a friend, watch a favorite movie on TV, or take the time to engage in your favorite hobby or pastime. Stress and depression will take a toll on your body both physically and emotionally.
Think positive and make each day important. Enjoy your family, hold and look into the eyes of a baby, and treat yourself to a bubble bath or special outing. You will find you are aging in a healthy way and could give you a longer lifespan.
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Healthy Aging Issues Today
01/06/2009
Agency on Aging provides benefits counseling for seniors (Beaumont Enterprise)
Hurricane Ike victims who are over age 60 are eligible for one-on-one benefits counseling through the Area Agency on Aging, a division of the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission.
Agency on Aging provides benefits counseling for seniors (Beaumont Enterprise)
01/06/2009
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
Scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear.
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
01/06/2009
Sigh of relief for senior ctrs - Aging Department change-up could mean no closings (YourNabe.com)
A feared request for proposal (RFP) put out by the city’s Department for the Aging for their widespread modernization plan, which many believed would lead to a consolidation and closure of senior centers, has been pulled.
Sigh of relief for senior ctrs - Aging Department change-up could mean no closings (YourNabe.com)
01/06/2009
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
Scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear.
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
01/06/2009
New assessment technique lets scientists see brain aging before symptoms appear (PhysOrg)
UCLA scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology developed at UCLA, along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear. Published in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, their study may offer a more accurate method for tracking brain aging.
New assessment technique lets scientists see brain aging before symptoms appear (PhysOrg)
01/06/2009
Agency on Aging provides benefits counseling for seniors (Beaumont Enterprise)
Hurricane Ike victims who are over age 60 are eligible for one-on-one benefits counseling through the Area Agency on Aging, a division of the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission.
Agency on Aging provides benefits counseling for seniors (Beaumont Enterprise)
01/06/2009
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
Scientists have used innovative brain-scan technology along with patient-specific information on Alzheimer's disease risk, to help diagnose brain aging, often before symptoms appear.
Scientists See Brain Aging Before Symptoms Appear (Science Daily)
01/06/2009
Seniors, caregivers to discuss aging at forum (Lake County Journals)
LAKE COUNTY JOURNALS GRAYSLAKE – Lake County seniors, caregivers, and their advocates will discuss federal and state issues concerning aging at a legislative forum from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 9.
Seniors, caregivers to discuss aging at forum (Lake County Journals)
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