Maintaining her cardiovascular health is one of the most important things your senior can do for her overall health and well-being. There are risk factors your senior can’t do much about, like hereditary factors, but there are even more that she and her 24-hour home care providers can do at least a little something about.

Keep Blood Sugar Under Control

Higher blood sugar levels can be extremely dangerous for your senior because of the damage that uncontrolled glucose can do to her organs. If your elderly family member has a family history of diabetes, it’s even more important for her to adopt habits that help her to keep her blood sugar under control. Talk to her doctor about what else she can do.

Control Cholesterol Levels

Cholesterol might seem like something that your senior can’t do much about. But in reality, there are some changes your senior can make, with the help of her doctor, that can reduce her risk of high cholesterol levels. That, in turn, can reduce her risk of heart disease, too.

Keep Blood Pressure Under Control

If your elderly family member is at risk of having high blood pressure, then it’s even more important for her to do what she can to keep it under control. Reducing stress levels, making dietary changes, and getting plenty of sleep are all important factors. Delegating some tasks to 24-hour home care providers can do a lot to reduce your senior’s blood pressure.

Make Dietary Changes with the Help of 24-Hour Home Care Aides

So many health conditions can be helped on some level by adjusting what your senior eats. Even small changes can be crucial, but they can also be difficult for your senior to make on her own. Having an extra level of assistance from 24-hour home care providers takes the effort out of healthier eating for your senior.

Stay as Active as Possible

If your senior’s doctor recommends that she exercise, even a little bit, that can help her so much in her battle to avoid heart disease. Starting out slowly with activities that she enjoys can be the key to consistently embracing exercise. Your elderly family member may also find that having 24-hour home care providers there with her when she exercises helps her to feel safer.

Keeping up with doctor’s appointments and her evolving risk factors for heart disease is another important aspect of this goal for your elderly family member. Doing so allows her to make additional adjustments as necessary.

If you are considering 24-Hour Home Care Services in Shelby OH, call the caring staff at Central Star Home Health at (419) 610-2161.  Providing services for families in Mansfield, Lexington, Bellville, Crestline, Galion, Shelby, Ashland, Ontario and the surrounding areas.

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Stephen Sternbach

CEO at Central Star Home Health Services

With over 35 years of experience, Stephen Sternbach has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Star Multi Care Services since 1987. After the sale of the New York and New Jersey operations of Star Multi Care Services, Sternbach brought the company private where he remains President and CEO of this 40-million dollar company. With Sternbach at the helm, Star Multi Care Services employs more than 650 employees, in six offices throughout Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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