Senior Parent Solutions

Petting a dog or stroking a cat is a highly therapeutic activity. The next time you visit, why not bring your pet with you? If your older adult is an animal lover, they’d probably be overjoyed to spend time with an animal, especially a beloved family pet.

Research has found that spending time playing with animals lowers heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels. And in the long term, interacting with a pet can even lower cholesterol, prevent depression, and protect against heart disease and stroke.

But before you bring a pet, check with the care community to make sure furry visitors are allowed. 🐶🐱🐦🐠

💟 Life can be only be understood backward but it must be lived forward. ⏩

❤️ Friends are essential.

❤️ Friendships improve physical and mental health isn’t news to John Moore, DO, an Aetna medical director and senior health specialist. Dr.Moore saw a marked difference in the health outcomes of older patients who were socially active compared to those who weren’t.

❤️ Friends can strengthen our immune system, help us recover more quickly from illness, sharpen our memory and even help us live longer.

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The importance of friends as you age Being with friends isn't just fun - it can also boost your health, especially as you get older. Find out why.

✔ According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will double from about 11% to 22%.”

⭐ Dispelling the myths associated with aging seems more pressing than at any point in our evolutionary history.

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Medical myths about aging: Is deterioration inevitable? As part of our series addressing medical myths, we turn our attention to the many myths that surround the "inevitable" decline associated with aging.