We all know we should be doing it, and some of our staff in nursing do as much as 50 times a day, but can you remember the last time you washed your hands.. and for how long? As part of our training here at AEC Living we’re mandated to keep up a
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How to safely hire someone to help around the home has been a concern for as long as people having been employing others for assistance. Finding the right person can be time consuming and filled with challenges. If you knew people who could help or where to look, they’d already be helping. So, at some point
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There was a time when it might have been laughable, a notorious commercial from the 90s where an alert company was called via pendant by a deeply distraught lady with a thick Jersey accent, stating, she had fallen and could not get up. Of course, now we know that:
these companies actually save lives
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Such drastic weather changes this past week going from 65 most of the spring to 105 in the valley and 99 in the East Bay.. foosh ☀️!! In summer and late spring, warm weather is expected, and often welcome, but when it comes on sudden and very strong, it can be a very dangerous situation for
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Senior Saftey tips continue as a theme this month and this one comes from the Mayo Clinic. You see it all the time, at least outside our facilities, seniors walking around pushing their walkers with their entire weight on them hunched over with elbows bent. This makes many think this is the way walkers should
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As originally featured in the Patch by Carolyn Avery
Please join the 26th annual Senior Health & Fitness Day for seniors and their families on Wednesday, May 29th from 1pm to 3 pm at Mastick Senior Center at 1155 Santa Clara Ave. in Alameda. RSVP here.
This event is part of a nationwide celebration of senior fitness.
In the interests of supporting our mission of helping seniors in our community, our Community Living Specialists (CLS) Jordan and Cheryl visited the San Leandro Senior Resource Fair to represent AEC living and if necessary, assist in pointing our East bay Seniors in the proper direction for other resources. Since often times it becomes apparent
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Who knew that laughter could make you bust up at the seams? Well, our latest Elders Village talk taught our fellow senior friends at Mastick that a bit of side splitting laughter was a great way to open up your lungs, brighten up the color in your cheeks and waken up your spirit. The only
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Echoing a long-held sentiment by AEC Living, The Patch says “It’s never too late to start exercising.”
In fact, exercising is one of the things we value the most, and our therapy department is our most proud and outstanding division within AEC Living. Why? because it often turns people around for the better and achieves long-lasting
As part of our ongoing talks at Mastick Senior Center featuring a wide variety of informative lectures, we have included in this month a topic of great importance to many seniors; hearing loss. Not exactly something that comes along with old age, hearing loss isn’t something that should be expected as coming with the territory
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