On any given day, thousands of people across the U.S. are undergoing heart surgery, from complex procedures like open-heart surgery to less invasive valve repairs. These surgeries are often life-saving, enabling individuals to regain their health and continue enjoying an active lifestyle.
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Know the Signs of a CHF Flareup
Living with congestive heart failure (CHF) presents unique challenges, but it also offers an opportunity to take charge of your health with the right resources and support. CHF occurs when the heart struggles to pump blood efficiently, leading to symptoms that can affect your energy, breathing, and overall well-being. While CHF is often tied to conditions like high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, many people successfully manage it by…
Understanding the ABCs of Senior Heart Health
Almost 50 percent of all people in the United States have one of the three top risk factors of heart disease: high blood pressure, smoking, and high LDL cholesterol. Too many people make poor lifestyle choices each day that negatively affect their heart. Poor diet, excessive alcohol intake, and physical inactivity are just a few things that can do permanent damage. It’s easy to forget to put into practice the…
Helping Seniors Cope With Lifestyle Changes After a Heart Attack
When someone you love experiences a stroke or heart attack, you will likely want to focus on a list of steps that can be taken to make sure that the damaged heart heals. You will also want to address the lifestyle choices that contributed to the heart attack and make the appropriate lifestyle changes after a heart attack. Advanced Home Health Care’s experts in elderly care in Burlington and the…
How to Make Nutritious Meals for Seniors
Our aging care professionals in Burlington understand that it’s not easy to make the right choices for nutritious meals for seniors when the guidelines for nutrition appear to constantly change. We had been told that saturated fats from sources including butter, red meat and fried foods were harmful and could affect a person’s odds of developing heart issues, but later studies indicated there isn’t enough evidence that those who gave…
Top 10 Tips for Proper Heart Medication Management for Seniors
If you or a senior loved one in your life have been diagnosed with heart disease, you know how important proper heart medication management for seniors is. It is essential to take heart disease meds exactly as prescribed. But what exactly does that mean? Here are a few helpful recommendations from Advanced Home Health Care to help you get the most from your meds:
What You Need to Know About Home Blood Pressure Measurement
If you were diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease, or high blood pressure, chances are your health care provider has suggested taking blood pressure at home, with regularly scheduled readings using a home blood pressure monitor. Yet how do you know that these readings are correct? And furthermore, what do those numbers even mean?
Do You Know the Signs of Heart Attack in Women? Take the “IF She Were a SWAN…” Challenge
Everybody knows the story pertaining to the ugly duckling who turned out to be a lovely swan. The apparent moral of the story is that certain things, upon first glance, are not what they seem to be. It is with the swan’s story in mind that Advanced Home Health Care invites you to commemorate Women’s Heart Health Month with the “IF She Were a SWAN…” Challenge.