What To Do When Your Elderly Parents Refuse Elder Care?

We have come across many instances when either parent or both initially refuse to take outside help from a trained caregiver.

This can happen because of many reasons:

1. How to trust that person?

2. Where will that person stay? Where will they sleep? What will they eat?

3. We are still fit to carry on our routine activities!

4. Which religion or caste they belong to!

5. Language spoken and understood.

The best proof is always to speak to similar situation people who have taken help. Their words and experience can be most reassuring. Get in touch with us to speak to the right people. We will visit your place, understand, reassure, make them speak to our existing or past customers.

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5 Tips for Overcoming an Elderly Parent’s Objections to Home Care

10 Cancer Myths Busted

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World Cancer Day 2016

The theme for this year is "We can" ---"I can"

Below is the page from World Cancer Day. Each message clicked leads to further information.

If you need to know more about it, please write to us or get in touch with us.

Key messages

	Inspire action, take action		Make healthy lifestyle choices
	Prevent cancer		Understand that early detection saves lives
	Challenge perceptions		Ask for support
	Create healthy environments		Support others
	Improve access to cancer care		Take control of my cancer journey
	Bulid a quality cancer workforce		Love, and be loved
	Mobilise our networks to drive progress		Be myself
	Shape policy change		Return to work
	Make the case for investing in cancer control		Share my story
	Work together for increased impact		Speak out

Need Help To Take Care Of Elderly?

Taking care of your elderly parents can be made easy. You need to have the right people supporting you. Our team of experts make it easy for you to take care of your elderly parent and ensure they stay healthy, functional and happy.

Elderly people have diverse requirements. Also the challenges faced by them are multitude. With decreasing muscle mass, loss of balance and other health conditions, it can become difficult for them to manage their daily needs.

It is tough for the near and dear ones to provide constant care as expected by the elderly person on account of various reasons. Under such circumstances having an attender to take care of elderly makes a big difference.

Conditions where an attender can make life easy are:

1. People who are bed ridden

2. People with Parkinson's disease

3. People with Dementia and Alzheimer's.

4. People with Stroke/Paralysis

5. Cancer patients

6. Patients with tracheostomy

7. Patients with colostomy

Require An Attender or Elderly Care Provider? Get In Touch With Us

To know the benefits and how to get an attender to suit your requirement get in touch with us. You can call us on  9845900291, 080 65775557

Does Alcohol Increase Cancer Risk?

We all know that smoking causes cancer. Smoking or rather tobacco related products are responsible for varied cancers like oral, pharyngeal, lung, kidney, bladder, cervical to name a few.

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But what about Alcohol? Does Alcohol cause increase?

Alcohol consumption leads to higher risk of many cancers like breast, oesophagus, oral, pharyngeal, liver, colon and rectum!

If you are wondering that some alcohols are better over others, you are mistaken. All forms of alcohol from wine, beer, whiskey to rum, all increase risk of cancer. However the risk increases with the amount of alcohol consumed. Women who had two to three drinks a day had a 20 percent higher risk of breast cancer compared to women who didn’t drink at all.

While we would like to recommend that you should not drink at all, the American Cancer Society recommends no more than two drinks  a day for men and one drink a day for men.

If you want to read more

1. The Burden Of Cancer Attributable to Alcohol

2. American Cancer Society Recommendation 

If you have any health related questions, get in touch with us.

Do You Need An Helping Hand In Taking Care of Your Near One?

Elderly people have diverse requirements. Also the challenges faced by them are multitude. With decreasing muscle mass, loss of balance and other health conditions, it can become difficult for them to manage their daily needs.

It is tough for the near and dear ones to provide constant care as expected by the elderly person on account of various reasons. Under such circumstances having an attender to take care of elderly makes a big difference.

Conditions where an attender can make life easy are:

1. People who are bed ridden

2. People with Parkinson's disease

3. People with Dementia and Alzheimer's.

4. People with Stroke/Paralysis

5. Cancer patients

6. Patients with tracheostomy

7. Patients with colostomy

Require An Attender or Elderly Care Provider? Get In Touch With Us

To know the benefits and how to get an attender to suit your requirement get in touch with us. You can call 09886455344

Does "Bad Luck" Cause Cancer?

Cancer is a dreaded disease and is the second most common cause of death. All cancers are not same. There are good cancers and bad cancers. Also our understanding about what causes cancers has improved over time but still we need to know more.
In what way "luck" can play a role in cancer formation?
Well, the mutations, that is the damage which happens to the DNA, can be random and as it depends on chance, it can be attributed to luck.
So, scientists say, two thirds of cancers can be attributed to bad luck!
The agents which cause damage to DNA like tobacco, alcohol, UV rays, certain chemicals of course increase your "bad luck"!

The chances of developing cancer and bad luck are related to driving an auto mobile! The longer the drive/journey greater is the risk of cancer. Want to understand more about this analogy, read the article below.

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1. The mechanical condition of the car is equivalent to inherited genetic mutations. The number of problems in the car—bad brakes, worn tires —increases the risk of an accident.
2. The road conditions on the way to the destination could be likened to the environmental factors in cancer. Worse conditions —slippery roads, poor visibility, dangerous curves—would be associated with a higher risk of an accident

......more here Hopkins Medicine

Sugar Sweetened Beverages

Are you found of drinking soda and sugar sweetened beverages?

Not withstanding the other harms, almost 2 lakhs deaths per year can be attributed to sugary drinks.

“Many countries in the world have a significant number of deaths occurring from a single dietary factor, sugar-sweetened beverages. It should be a global priority to substantially reduce or eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages from the diet,” said Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.P.H., senior author of the study and dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University in Boston. 

Read more here ...http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/sugary-drinks-linked-high-death-tolls-worldwide

What Is The Most Addictive Food You Are Eating?

We have woken up to the fact that we need to eat healthy, thanks to Maggi! As a part of educating our readers, we thought why not keep it simple and common?

So what is the most addictive food substance that we eat?

No, it is not Maggi!

It is added "Sugar"! Yes, sugar scores on addictiveness quotient more than cocaine and the worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are addicted to sugar.

Why "Sugar" addiction is bad?

Addiction to sugar can lead to overeating and obesity. Processed food are made palatable by addition of sugar, this in turn make us crave for processed, packaged food. We may end up consuming far more calories than what is required.

What does added sugar intake do to us?

1. It increases the risk for heart diseases.

2. It increases risk of cancer.

3. It increases the risk of cognitive impairment.

4. Fatty Liver

So what foods should you avoid to reduce added sugar intake?

1. Soda drinks like Coke, Pepsi,

2. Energy drinks

3. Cookies, biscuits, pastries

4.Fruit drinks,

5. Ready to eat cereals

For those interested in reading further:

Harvard Health

JAMA Addictive Power Of Sugar

Truth About Sugars

Know Your Drug-Paracetamol

You would have taken "Paracetamol" on numerous occasions.  The common brand names available in India are -Crocin, Calpol, Dolo, Paracip. It is also present in many fixed drug combinations for cold and pain.
We highlight the benefits and risks of Paracetamol in this post.

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Uses:

Many people think paracetamol is only for fever. Paracetamol also has the ability to relieve pain.

Therefore it is used in

• Headache
• Muscle ache
• Toothache
• Arthritis
• Back ache
• Cold &
• Fever

It only reduces the symptoms and does not correct the underlying pathology.

A recent paper mentions that it may not be effective in back ache. Lancet, News. So, we can probably use other placebo drugs for back pain and get the same relief!

Dose:

In children the dose can range from 15 mg/kg to 30 mg/kg up to 12 years.

In Adults: Dose for fever is 325 mg to 650 mg every 6 hours. Not to exceed 3 gm per day.

For pain: 650 mg every 6 hours or 1000 mg every 8 hours. 

Paracetamol in Combination:

For pain control it is available in combination with Ibuprofen, Diclofenac, Tramadol.  The dose of paracetamol available in such combinations is 325 mg. Dosage varies, please consult your doctor or use our tele-consultation service.

Side Effects:

Paracetamol is considered a "safe" drug. But it needs to be taken with caution in people who have liver disease. Also overdosing should be avoided.

• a rash or swelling – this could be a sign of an allergic reaction
• hypotension (low blood pressure) when given in hospital by infusion (a continuous drip of medicine into a vein in your arm) 
• liver and kidney damage, when taken at higher-than-recommended doses (overdose)

There have recent data collected from observational research which indicate that "Paracetamol" could be injurious to kidney, liver, gastric mucosa and heart when used for a long time. 

Even though paracetamol is very safe to be taken during pregnancy, reports indicate association with hyperactivity disorders in children. Safe to say that use paracetamol only when necessary under medical supervision. 

Addendum: Added on 16/04/2015

Paracetamol also known as acetaminophen also has been found to reduce the ability to have "pleasure"! Link to new article here

Acetaminophen is also found to increase the risk of few hematological malignancies.  Abstract here

What does this all mean? Be careful about taking drugs indiscriminately.

Why Do People Who Do Not Smoke or Drink Get Cancer?

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Politicians apart, many people wonder why someone who smoked and drank lived up to 70 or 80 or sometimes 90 years, while as some one who was leading a healthy lifestyle suffers from chronic disease like cancer.

We underestimate the influence of many other habits and the environment.

We all know tobacco consumption increases the risk of cancer and many other chronic diseases. The effect gets multiplied when you drink alcohol.

This short presentation will give a clue about different reasons for Cancer.

If you have any questions, please mail us. We will be happy to answer them.

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