Safety

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•  Home Safety For Seniors

•  Nurse's Heart Attack Experience

•  Preventing Falls

•  Reverse Mortgage Scam Alert

•  Safe Food Handling - Freezing Food

•  Telltale Signs Of A Stroke

• Eating Less The Easy Way

Eating less-the easy way Diets aren´t always the easy way to maintain a healthy weight for seniors, but eating less can be. Use the salad plate for meals rather than the dinner plate; less surface, less food.

• Free Sample Medications

SAMPLE PRESCRIPTIONS If your physician prescribes new medications for you, always ask if he has any samples to give you. It is not wise to pay for new medications without knowing you can take them and not have severe side effects. Pharmaceutical companies supply free samples to doctors just for these purposes. Even if getting renewal prescriptions for medications, ask for samples. However, physicians do not always have the samples.

• Mosquito Repellant

Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

• Grandparent Scam Alert

Read about the grandparent scam alert on this website under Articles, Other. A must read for every senior!!!