Health & Wellness

Your trusted source for feeling your best—physically, mentally, and emotionally. From managing health conditions to preventive care and everyday wellness tips, find expert advice tailored to the 50+ lifestyle.

Must-Have Supplies for Your Car Emergency Kit

Must-Have Supplies for Your Car Emergency Kit

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While it’s scary to imagine being in an emergency situation, it’s a lot scarier to be unprepared during one. By ...

How Seniors Can Avoid Muscle Loss

How Seniors Can Avoid Muscle Loss

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Muscle loss affects people as they become more advanced in years. These are some lifestyle choices you can make as a senior to keep your body strong.

5 Tips to Help Seniors Exercise During the Pandemic

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By now, most seniors are aware that they’re among the most vulnerable demographic groups when it comes to contracting COVID-19. ...

How To Avoid Hitting a Deer With Your Car

How To Avoid Hitting a Deer With Your Car

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Deer collisions are not an uncommon occurrence in the fall and winter season, especially in Georgia. While the likelihood of ...

For essential workers, a flu shot is essential protection

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COVID-19 has helped remind all of us just how essential our essential workers are. Whether you’re a health care worker, ...

Hidden Warehouse Safety Issues

Hidden Warehouse Safety Issues

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A warehouse is often the main employer of many small towns. Warehouses are a place for steady, solid work, and ...

How to Combat Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Adults

The Lake Oconee Boomers Team

Feeling a sense of connection and belonging with others is a basic human need. But unfortunately for many older adults, ...

Simple Ways to Safely Bring Joy to Seniors During the Holidays

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Many seniors and their loved ones are taking special precautions to stay healthy, including limiting or eliminating visits and other ...

Safety Standards To Maintain While Arc Welding

Safety Standards To Maintain While Arc Welding

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Arc welding is a common, effective method of welding if you know what you’re doing. If you don’t, you can ...

How Technology Is Helping People Better Manage Diabetes During COVID-19

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The impact of COVID-19 has changed many aspects of our everyday lives, particularly for those living with a chronic condition ...

Food Prices: Why They’re Rising and How to Save

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected food prices more than nearly any other part of the household budget. In April, the ...

4 Truths About Older People and the Pandemic

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Life spans are getting longer, and the pandemic is greatly affecting older people (and their younger counterparts). Erica Baird and ...

Loneliness Puts Seniors at Increased Risk for Morbidities

The Lake Oconee Boomers Team

According to the University of Michigan, the lack of daily interpersonal interactions has caused a spike in reported loneliness and isolation in ...

how to deal with anger

Attention, Intention, Attitude: 3 Mindful Ways to Deal With Anger

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With perhaps the most divisive American presidential election in modern history right around the corner, Julie Potiker, author of “Life Falls ...

Osteoporosis

One Broken Bone Leads to Another, Warns IOF on World Osteoporosis Day

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Today, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) calls for all adults to be alert to their risk factors for osteoporosis, a ...