From the start, you get to pick what you want to explore about from different health topics. From learning how to manage arthritis, keeping active, watching your weight, to seeing your doctor, or protecting your joints as you age, this website has tons of ways and other sites that can help protect your body!
This site offers answers to the questions most commonly asked when trying to learn about becoming a LNA. Good information and questions that might come up in the future and I wouldn't even have thought of, so highly recommendable source to check out.
This site offers options right at the beginning from six brochures that are electronically published. Each brochure covers a different topic such as breast cancer, eye disease, heart diseases, diabetes, stroke, or even HIV-AIDS. Then by clicking on one, it brings up a electronic site of the brochure that has information leading to that topic. Overall, very recommendable.
This site gives overall, the best definition of what dementia is and how it affects the body in a way that is easy to understand with many of other links. The purpose of this webpage is to give information about medical diseases and illness, not just Dementia, which are covered intensely. Overall useful source that provided a different way of providing a non-bias definition of dementia, and very recommendable.
By far my favorite website while working with the elderly. This site gives a list of activities that have to deal with your senses but as if you're aged. For example: eyes can yellow as you age so this site explains how you could buy swimmer's goggles an color them yellow to show the aged eyes. This site offers the best inside for understanding how different life is for the elders.
This website offers a ton of information that deals with dementia which is a disease often attached with age but not always. There are ways to try to prevent it, as well as ways to deal and notice dementia. Great details an pictures that are interesting an helpful in understanding this illness.
Online games that track and train your brain in a fun and creative way. I found this site to be quite enjoyable as it is a well mix of learning and having fun with video games.
This site will give you a understanding on how to break down the individual steps to using a computer to someone that might not know how to use one and it was very helpful in the process of me teaching the older residence at Living Well in a way they would understand.