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This is at least the second YouTube health influencer whom I tend to trust who is backing Astaxanthin supplementation. The other is my fave health YouTuber, Rimon (Wellness Messiah). As I posted elsewhere, but apparently not on this thread, I have been subcribing to a monthly supply of AX3 brand Astaxanthin which has research scientists behind it who have been interviewed by Rimon. I take 24mg (two tablets - double the basic recommendation) daily but can't vouch that it's having any beneficial effect.
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LONELINESS IN OLDER ADULTS​

Many older adults are much more lonely, isolated, or disconnected than we realize. And we often get too caught up in our lives to make an effort to get together with our older friends & family members, or to check-in with our elderly neighbors.

What can make things worse is that older adults who feel most isolated struggle with reaching out in the first place. Sometimes, they don’t want to be perceived as a burden. But if they feel like others don’t seek them, they can withdraw even further. That’s why it’s up to us to reach out to them.

SPOTTING THE SIGNS OF LONELINESS​

It’s important to be on the lookout for social isolation in older adults. Here are some things to consider:

  • Do they receive visits from friends or family?
  • Do you see them outside of their home often?
  • Do they complain that their children no longer call them?
  • Have they recently lost a spouse, close friend, or caregiver?
  • Do they have a chronic health condition such as depression, failing memory, or hearing loss?

DID YOU KNOW?​

  • Over 40% of older adults experience loneliness and isolation on a regular basis.
  • Individuals who are isolated are 64% more likely to develop dementia.
  • A lack of social connection is as hurtful to one’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
  • Feeling disconnected and alone can lead to depression and even to suicidal Thoughts

REACHING OUT TO OLDER ADULTS​

Make it a practice to reach out to others throughout the year. It benefits the people we connect with — and us as well.

  • Ask to hear an elderly neighbor’s stories.
  • Text or call the relative you’ve lost touch with.
  • Stop by and chat with someone at work who has seemed a bit sad lately.
  • Invite someone new to your home for dinner.
  • Plan a phone date with an old friend who lives out of town.
  • Share something you enjoy – play music, go to a concert together, or teach someone to knit.
  • Make handmade cards with your child and send to family members or friends on birthdays and holidays, or just because you’re thinking of them.
  • Give compliments.
  • Give smiles. Warm, approachable, genuine smiles.
  • Give your full attention – put down the phone and take a break from text messages and social media.
  • Make it a habit. Reach out to someone every week or every day.
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I think this proposal would make a HUGE impact on the health of older adults and many other people as well.
Elegant. simple, practical and very do able.

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A data scientist named Erin Rolandsen has started a business called Angel Assist to find people to act as live-in helpers for mainly elderly people who want to keep living at home but need a bit of help.

The deal is that the "helpful housemate" agrees to do 14 hours of active helping per week — shopping, cleaning, gardening — in return for free board and food. It's also expected that they would sleep there at night in case something happens. The person can work full time as well as do the 14 hours of helping.

The idea has a number of benefits: it relieves the government from paying for a home care package, which can run to thousands of dollars; it keeps people out of nursing homes; it uses a spare bedroom in a house that is too big; and it takes someone out of the rental market.

The live-in helpers are often women aged over 50 who are "housing insecure", sometimes homeless.

Erin asked the government to pay the one-off $2,999 fee to help find the "helpful housemate" as part of the home care package system, but was turned down flat, even though it would be much cheaper.

Chalmers can have that idea for nothing, without having to pay my airfare to Canberra.
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The failure to match population with housing and infrastructure has led to a more serious decline in living standards than is evident from GDP per capita statistics.
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Allulose again, this time from Dr Ben Bikman whom you can look up and seems very credible to me. I've been using it for quite a while, sometimes alternating with glycine or inulin for sweetness in coffee and tea. Allulose reputedly doesn't spike blood glucose and as far as I know has little effect on insulin. Could also be a GLP-1 agonist? Haven't heard the bit about competing with fructose for uptake by the liver before. So far so good - haven't had any cause to doubt its efficacy yet.



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