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Old Age
Increasing infirmity and the label "geriatric" lead to awkward changes in life involving support from family, friends and neighbours and the difficult decisions about residential care, nursing homes and money problems linked to that. It is a particularly difficult time of life due to the magnitude of the issues and the decreased ability to cope with them. Due to the differences in mortality this problem is more often one for the older women rather than men.
This community splits into two, with the carer who will have a completely different view of the problems involved often on one side and the person cared for on the other.
Please visit the Carers Page for carer's problems.
And the Mobility Difficulties pages for people with problems of mobility with other physical disabilities.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Old Age
These are commonly available:-
| Approaches Individual to the Practitioner |
| Counselling and Psychotherapy |
| Osteopathy |
| Reflexology |
| Reiki |
| Shiatsu |
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Old Age
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Dr. | Don | Farrow | North Carolina | United States of America | |
Old Age Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Old Age Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Council on the Ageing | Australia | National |
| Alone | Ireland | Dublin |
| Age Concern New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
