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Empty Nest Syndrome

Common Condition, Counselling Psychology, GENERAL, Golden Age, GOLDEN YEARS, Health Problems for Golden Age

Introduction An empty nest syndrome refers to the feeling of loneliness, loss, and grief experienced by many parents or caregivers when the children moved out of the home. This may occur when the children started to live on their own, getting married or leave their childhood homes to further their …

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Tips for Elderly to go Travelling

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Planning for travel? What to do after the trip

Tips for Elderly to go Travelling

Reaching home after a long trip brings two types of conflicting feelings. While you may feel certain happiness of reaching home, there may be some reluctance of ending the happy time spent abroad. Nevertheless, there is some precaution to watch out after a long trip.

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Planning for travel? What to do during the trip

Tips for Elderly to go Travelling

Planning well before a trip will ensure you to have an enjoyable time . However, there are still some tips that may prove to be useful to take note during the proper trip itself.

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Planning for travel? What to do before the trip

Tips for Elderly to go Travelling

Part of successful aging is to continue doing what you enjoy as long as your health status allows. Travelling may be something on your mind.

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Choosing Walking Aid

Common Condition, GOLDEN YEARS

Introduction Human body is made to move. Mobility is vital part of our daily lives. Moving improves ability to perform daily activities and thus improves quality of life. Walking can become a problem as people aged by means of disabilities preventing the person from using the limbs, reduced …

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Death and Dying in Elderly

Common Condition

Currently elderly people may have different trajectories of death and dying because of the wonders of medical sciences, which have helped prolonged human life and postponing death. These modern ways of manipulating life have blurred the boundary between life and death, making prognostication of death in the elderly very difficult and complicated.

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Drug-Related Problems in the Elderly

Common Condition

Prescribing for elderly patients presents unique-challenges. Many medications need to be used with special caution because of age-related changes in pharmacokinetics (ie, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and pharmacodynamics (the physiologic effects of the drug).

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