Lightheadedness is a feeling of wooziness or faintness. It is commonly caused by dehydration, drug side effects, blood pressure drops, low blood sugar, heart disease, or stroke.
Legal documentation that protects a person’s future medical treatment choices is generally known as an advance directive.
For older adults who can't always go to the store, it's smart to keep the freezer stocked with healthy, fresh foods all year through. Staples include a variety of proteins (meat, poultry, and seafood), fruits, and vegetables.
It appears that many older adults are getting unnecessary screenings for breast and prostate cancer.
Advances in technology include the use of lasers and 3D imaging, and intraoperative wavefront aberrometry, which measures the total refractive error of the eye.
Daytime sleepiness is one of the most commonly reported side effects of some medications. Resolving drowsiness may be a matter of adjusting the dose or changing medications.