Seniors' Health
Live Life on Your Own Terms
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General
- 9 ways to warm up this winter
- 27 ways to ease up
- Aging well
- Andropause (male menopause)
- Climate change and your health
Body Basics
- 7 steps to help you deal with foot odour
- Calcium and vitamin D intake
- Everyday life activities
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Preventing bedsores
Bones & Joints
- 6 self-care steps for dealing with TMJD
- Arthritis - a potential cure and a cause
- Arthritis: what is it?
- Got inflamed joints?
- Bone up on bone health
Heart Disease
- A dash of salt can really add up
- A little ASA for your heart?
- Beating heart disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke
- Blood pressure - what's yours at?
- Cholesterol and heart disease
Brain & Mental Health
- A stroke of luck
- Aging & the nervous system
- Alzheimer's disease
- Alzheimer's disease: Is a cure close at hand?
- Alzheimer's disease: diagnosis
Kidneys & Urinary Problems
- 13 urine changes to watch for
- Keeping your kidneys healthy
- More about the prostate gland
- Prostate problems
- Sexual dysfunction
Nutrition & Fitness
- A healthy diet as we grow older
- Canada's new and improved food guide
- Do you get enough calcium?
- Exercise: it's never too late
- Folic acid and your heart
Research news
- Report: Heart disease in Canada to skyrocket
- Survey: today's seniors not too old for sex
- Study: Cardiovascular risk factors linked to Alzheimer's disease
- Study: Cholesterol medications may protect bones, too
- Study: Complex job may prevent Alzheimer's disease
Archived webcasts
Health features
- Foot Care: Put Some Spring in Your Step
- 4 Steps to Post-holiday Rejuvenation
- Active Living
- Allergy and Asthma
- Andropause: A turning point for men
Health tools
- Arthritis: how aware are you?
- Blood Pressure Guide
- Cancer: What do you know?
- Cataracts: what do you know?
- Is it a cold or the flu?
Community support
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About This Channel
The "golden years" don't always glitter - they come with their own set of health problems, as if you hadn't lived through enough already. But you can look forward to many more happy, healthy years with a little help from your doctor and the right information. We present the facts on many conditions common to seniors so you can stay well.
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