Do You Worry About Keeping Your Brain Healthy?
As we get older it seems as though we get more forgetful and absent minded. I used to laugh at my cat, Xena, when she’d walk purposefully into a room, stop abruptly, look confused...
Category: Health and Fitness
3 Ways to Live a Long, Healthy Blue Zone Life
Best selling author Dan Buettner partnering with National Geographic spent more than five years traveling the globe researching the places in the world where higher percentages of people enjoy long, healthy lives. He identified...
Positive Aging – Life Expectancy vs Healthy Life Expectancy
There are more than 8,000 centenarians living in Canada today – the fastest growing age group. Longevity is a hot topic in the media these days. Financial planners are now projecting a life span...
Healthy Habits Can Reduce Future Health Care Costs
Our population is aging, and this is always a factor in health care costs. All the technological advances and health care innovations keep us living longer and longer while managing chronic conditions that would...
Cataract Surgery – Helping us See Clearly
Is your eyesight starting to get hazy? Do you notice a glare at night when headlights flash in your eyes? Do you think failing eyesight is a normal part of aging? You might assume...
Does Cold Weather Help You Live Longer?
We had our first snowfall of the season the other day and the temperature outside is getting decidedly nippy. Sweater weather has arrived and it’s time to turn up the thermostat. We Canadians are...
The Growing Trend in Home-Diagnostic Medical Kits
If you’ve been to the drugstore lately you may have noticed all the medical testing kits you can use in the privacy of your own home. You can check your blood pressure, glucose and...
Canadian Universal Drug Program
Canada is the only country in the world that has a publicly funded, universal health care system that doesn’t include a national plan to cover prescriptions. We are among the highest spenders for medications...
Choosing a New Family Doctor
Several years ago, both of my primary care doctors retired at almost the same time. I apparently missed the memo, because I never did find out where my files were transferred to. These doctors...
Health and Fitness
We often take our health for granted. For many of us, the only time we think of it is when we lose it. Nothing will ruin retirement faster than having health issues. No one...
