Feet are sometimes overlooked when considering health care, even though they are so important to us in our everyday lives. It is often not until we lose our mobility that we realise we have also lost our independence.
Conditions
Conditions related to 50+ health wellbeing.
Strengthening Bones
It is normal for the bones to erode as we age. But for some people, the ...
What is Dry Eye Syndrome?
Do your eyes ever suffer from a gritty, sandy sensation? If so, you may be suffering ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis
There are more than 100 different kinds of arthritis. Most of them involve inflammation. Read here about a number of different types of inflammatory arthritis.
Treatments for Diverticulitis
Description Some people develop multiple small pouches in the lining of their intestines (usually in the ...
The Rotator Muscle
The rotator muscle is the most common cause of shoulder pain. This is a group of ...
Depression
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Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis Can Strike at Thirty. Although osteoporosis is known to appear especially on older people, the ...
Lindsey Dawson – Midlife Role Reversals – Alzheimers
We spend all our lives looking up at our parents, and then slowly, our roles change. Now that so many 'oldies' are living such long lives, many middle-aged offspring are finding out how dementia, or Alzheimer's, re-forges family roles and pushes their p
Food secrets – for Arthritis
The term “arthritis” is derived from the Greek… “arthron” meaning joint… and “it is” meaning inflammation. ...