Interactive life insurance
John Hancock of North American Life insurers is selling only interactive policies. These policies are able to track your health and fitness through wearable devices and smartphones. He is no longer selling traditional life insurance.
Interactive life insurance is well established in Britain and in South Africa and is growing in the United States. Policyholders can now receive discounts for reaching their exercise goals that are tracked through wearable devices like Fitbit or Apple Watches. When they hit their targets they can receive up to 15% discount off their premiums or get gift[…]
Emotional Support Animals for Seniors
Animals have been known to provide people with a wonderful companionship. Whether it’s a dog, cat, bird or fish they provide a positive impact on a person of family household. Dogs have been known to provide help not only emotionally, but also physically. Having an Emotional Support Dog (ESA) provides excellent health benefits for their owners.
If a senior is suffering from a chronic illness, depression, loneliness, or feeling isolated having an emotional support dog/animal can help with that. Doctor Thomas Schweinburg a neurologist in Ohio said, “It has been well-established that pets[…]
Spit test predictions
In a recent study doctors found that doing a spit test could help predict someone having a higher blood pressure. Over 535 genes have been connected through a simple spit test showing for over one million people. Researchers at Queen Mary University in London and Imperial College London says that about a third of the risk of high blood pressure is inherited.
Scientists found that people that had a higher genetic score were more likely to develop high blood pressure. They also found that people who had a higher score were 1.5[…]
Bullying in Nursing Homes
According to a recent study at Arizona State University, 20% of residents in nursing homes are being bullied by other residents. Not only do these seniors have to deal with the everyday struggles of aging, but they have to worry and live in a state of fear or depression from being bullied by peers.
There are many ways that senior bullying manifests and that’s through physical abuse, emotional and verbal abuse, as well as social excluding. This can happen whenever seniors are asked to share small spaces or to include others in[…]
Staying active in your 50’s
What are some of the physical and mental health benefits[…]
Nursing homes prepare for Florence
In less that 24 hours Hurricane Florence will make impact to the shores of the Carolinas. Officials have put out a state wide mandatory evacuation urging communities to leave the area. A nursing home in Myrtle Beach South Carolina started preparations for the hurricane last week and has their windows up and boarded. Many patients have already been picked up by family members while others were moved to another location in Columbia.
Many nursing homes across the Carolinas began reaching out to family members and started preparations for moving patients to different facilities.[…]
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