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Try this exercise: do the tai chi form at the same pace as your breathing…..breathe very slowly. At first just try it for the first part (25%) of the form & let me know how it feels.
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Thanks for your thoughts. Swimming of course is a wonderful all around exercise. Tai Chi Chuan in my opinion would be a good complement, especially when it’s not convenient to get to a pool. I like practising every nite before bed, I find it relaxing, meditative. Additionally Tai Chi is a very powerful martial art.

Nickolas:
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I have studied privately with Tai Chi Master (and friend) William C.C. Chen for over 40 years. During my lessons he imparts his thoughts and refines his ideas. His Master was Chen Man Ch’ing. Both of them have many books and have taught the Yang Form of Tai Chi Chuan all over [...]

Tai Chi Chuan is a Chinese health exercise and martial art that should be practiced daily. Usually eight to fifteen minutes a day. However, the meditative and stress reducing effect is amplified if practiced for longer periods. Even seniors can benefit since it really has no age restriction.

Tai Chi is as a slow moving [...]

Senior’s decrease their chances falling by practising tai chi for a period of time, as it enhances their physical balance. As important is the reduction of their fear of falling; this enhances their emotional balance.

Both equally important!

What does “chi” man and what does it feel like. When practicing the Tai Chi Chuan forms the energy, or “chi” is enhanced. Its development can only be effective if you are relaxed.

After a period of time, usually three to six months, fundemental learning of the tai chi form itself should be mastered. The [...]

If your parent doesn’t live with you and you need to provide in-house care, make sure you know where all the bank, cash, jewelry, or other valuables are located. Take an inventory and then make sure the valuables are removed for safekeeping.

Make a copy of everything in their wallets. Make sure you know the placement [...]

Assisted Living Federation of America (www.alfa.com) sent an email update today reporting that seniors with possibly untreated or undertreated vison problems may have a greater chance of developing dementia. (See their website for more information)

It seems apparant to me that regular checkups as the population ages will have a beneficial effect as they get older. [...]

Thank you for the comment. Tai Chi Chuan has been tested in studies that are focused on balance and coordination. I am working on designing protocols so that seniors might have an easier time learning the forms. You can check it out further by visiting www.williamccchen.com (I am listed as an instructor on the site.) [...]

I was in this situation with my father, who had alzheimer’s. although he lived only 30 minutes away? I would like to know if you have suggestions to solve this; since it’s scary when it occurs.

I was able to call neighbors, but only found him (after he bolted in his shorts) when the police picked [...]

Dov:
When my father was living at home with a full time aid he would walk the halls in the middle of the night. Neighbors (there were eight apartments on the floor in a cooperative building in Queens, New York) would complain because he made noise etc.

We changed the lock on the door so that [...]

it has occurred to me that there is a large population in their 30s and 40s who are becoming sensitive to the new role their parents have as caregivers for their parents. This younger population is becoming educated in senior care concerns. Perhaps younger generations will be better prepared to assist their parents, the existing [...]

I’m a certified instructor and student of Master William C.C. Chen for over 40 years and still take private lessons every Saturday morning. Master Chen is internationally known as a leading practitioner and teacher of Tai Chi Chuan for five decades. He was the youngest “live in” senior student and favorite disciple of [...]

I contacted Linda Ellis on facebook regarding her poem “The Dash”; she is an author, speaker and poet, and she replied:

“Hi Marty, thank you for your post. I’m glad The Dash has helped you in some way. Please feel free to share the following link to the poem on your site for your visitors to [...]

When it comes time to make the decisions of care for a loved one. who is near the end of life, and it is certain that there is no likely cure, what becomes important is to assure as much comfort as possible. The care given is palliative care.

Keep in mind as a caregiver, assumming [...]

As a caregiver, such as a son or daughter, it is most important to be able to recognize and acknowledge that you, as well as your parent, are going through a transitionary period. Speak about your feelings and the thought of added responsibility and eventual loss is difficult to integrate. Talking to a spouse, a [...]

It is of the utmost importance for the caregivers, who are charged with the well being of a parent to make sure that they take care of themselves: eat right, exercise, get enough sleep etc.

In order to be able to think clearly and make the right decisions, caregivers must be in a phycial and emotional [...]

It starts with “the phone call”

Ever since I got that “phone call” from my brother saying, “dad is on the floor” my life has changed, since it has become clear that my father’s life has changed. I started to worry about how can I help: first with the immediate emergency….. the first of the [...]

It is important to assist your parents as they get older. Do you have a health care proxy, a durable power of attorney, a living will that provides for a DNR and/or DNI…have you discussed what their thoughts are when it becomes necessary to make important end of life decisions?

This is written so that logistical [...]

The Vision

 U.S. Eldercare, is a nascent company, whose mission is to provide a central virtual location for the elderly and their caretakers to receive information and assistance with many of the hurdles that face an aging population. It will strive to enable its audience to communicate, gain access, and receive much needed guidance with compassion [...]

Make sure that you as a caregiver take care of yourself: get enough sleep, eat properly, exercise, and take time off….because you have to in order to be able to help.

Fortunately there are many books and sources of information about Alzheimer’s disease on the internet. There are two books that I recommend that are written to assist people as they navigate the beginnig days as caregivers to friends or family members of loved ones who have Alzheimer’s.

One of the books, “Elder Rage” is an autobiographical [...]

An Introduction to U.S. Eldercare

 Background

Between 2010 and 2030, the population over 65 will increase by 73%. Seventy million people (One out of every five Americans) will be over 65 as stated by the 2008 American Medical Student Association

http://www.merck.com/mkgr/mmg/sec1/ch2/ch2b.jsp

Between 1900 and 2000, the total US population increased 3-fold, but the population of people 65 years [...]

I am writing as a certified instructor and student of Master William C.C. Chen, who is internationally known as a leading practitioner and teacher of Tai Chi Chuan for five decades. He was the youngest live in senior student and favorite disciple of the Grandmaster Professor Cheng Man Ch’ing, who was a student of the [...]

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