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Cancer can affect people of any age, but 60% of cancer patients are 65 or older, and 10-15% of nursing facility residents are cancer patients. Here's what nursing assistants should know about cancer in the [...]

My friend Valentina asked me the other day how I make time to exercise despite a challenging schedule of 8-hour shifts, which aren’t always at the same time. I told her that I find the [...]

The wonders of technology are finding their way into nursing facilities and making them safer and more comfortable for their residents. Unobtrusive Security Cameras and locked security systems keep track of visitors who enter and [...]

The health of our environment is directly related to human health. Air and water pollution and inferior food quality lead to health problems such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer. Climate changes due to [...]

Improved medicine has led to longer life spans and an aging population around the world. In Germany, Italy and Japan, the elderly already make up 20% of the population, and that number is expected to [...]

This might surprise you, but my New Year’s resolution has nothing to do with my patients. This year, I’ve decided I need to make my own health – both mental and physical – more of [...]

As fall turns to winter, caregiving shifts as well. Here are some issues to think about as the weather gets colder. […]

It must be July. The streets near my house are filled with children playing ball and jump rope, my kids are lounging around watching TV and eating me out of house and home and I…am [...]

We’ve all seen toddlers insisting on doing things themselves, despite the fact that it takes them forever and that very often we have to redo everything they’ve done once they’ve finished. It can be frustrating [...]

Did you know? Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) doesn’t only affect soldiers returning from the battlefield. It can happen to anyone who has experienced a stressful event, and can affect seniors who have had a [...]

National Nurses Assistant Week is a big deal in my calendar. It’s not because I’m a CNA, although I used to be one. It’s because I know that I could not do my job as [...]

Labor Day brings back memories of new school books, knapsacks and sharpened pencils. Some of us are sending children back to school this Labor Day and starting to think about our own career advancement. It’s [...]