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Gift-Wrapping Tips to Help Seniors

We give and receive gifts year-round. As we age and arthritis starts to creep into the fingers, though, unwrapping a paper-wrapped gift with tape all over it becomes more difficult. I became aware of this, earlier on, with my grandparents and parents. And now, it's becoming a reality for me as well. So, today, I'm presenting a few tips that may help you or the seniors in your life. image courtesy of freestocks via Unsplash Gifts wrapped with paper are easier to unwrap if less tape is used, allowing enough room for the finger to slip into the overlap and tear the paper. Place gift inside a decorative box with gift tissue or confetti to conceal the gift under the lid. No tape required! Place gift inside a decorative bag with gift tissue over the gift to hide it. No tape required! We all like to surprise the recipient of our gifts, but there are easier presentations than taped up paper. This is not only easier for the senior for unwrapping purposes, but it's also easier for t

Exercises for Seniors

Is your doctor telling you or your seniors to move more? Does the simple thought of exercise exhaust you? Do you think you're too busy for exercise? Or are you or your senior 'too tired' to exercise? 

I'm a 'young' senior, whose metabolism isn't working as well as it used to. So, like you, I need to make some lifestyle changes to help my body burn calories and feel healthier. But I select healthy changes that will follow me into and through my older senior days. Because motion/exercise actually makes us feel less tired, I have found some seniors on YouTube that make exercising fun. Yes, I said fun.

If your doctor is persistent about you getting more exercise, ask her if the videos at the following YouTube links are okay for you to use. First, I have found that K.O.M. (Keep On Moving) has fun senior exercise videos as does Silver Sneakers, the popular program that is popular throughout senior centers across the United States. Most of these videos are reasonable in length so that you will be able to make time to do them at least once a day, three or four days a week.

Senior exercises
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The good thing about doing these exercises at home is you can go at your pace. When you get tired, you stop. You can learn the moves at your pace or just move your own way when the moves are too difficult to either do or learn. 

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Blessings and good luck on your health journey,

Patricia

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