Sanjana Musafir

There is more to a healthy lifestyle than just being physically fit. In fact, fitness is just one fragment of a much larger design. We often obsess over numbers on a scale while ignoring the other aspects of our lives. By viewing our health through the sense of an 8-piece puzzle, we can stop chasing perfection in one area and start building harmony across all of them. These eight areas include physical, emotional, social, intellectual, environmental, spiritual, occupational, and financial...

I have worked at a local nursing home as a dietary aide since last summer, and have recently started working as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) as well. These two jobs have taught me numerous things, specifically how to care for people experiencing cognitive decline. It can be difficult to see loved ones face the challenges of memory loss, and you might feel like there is nothing that you can do to help. But there are many strategies for caring for these loved ones. In this article, I...

Introduction In this article, I will discuss the differences between normal cognitive decline associated with aging and abnormal decline. Some people think that dementia is a normal part of the aging process, but this is not true. Aging brings predictable changes in cognitive function, but not all decline is normal. Some patterns reflect healthy aging, while others signal underlying disease. There are three broad groups of cognitive decline: age-associated memory impairment, mild cognitive...