The Importance of Staying Social as We Age

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Regardless of your age, it is important not only be physically active, but socially active as well. For seniors especially, staying social does more than just give you something to do, it also has wide ranging health benefits. According to University of Rochester Medical Center, continued social interaction has the potential to reduce seniors’ risk Read More >>

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Carol “Shorty” W.

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Carol “Shorty” W. from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Social services should be afforded the ability to go see the living conditions and doctors should once again get in the practice of prescribing nutrition. Had that happened at the first sign of trouble on a doctors visit for compulsive eating years Read More >>

Helping Hearts Foundation Rescue – What We See

Wash your hands. Western medicine is an amazing achievement in human history. To have banished from daily life the unsanitary conditions that breed viruses, bacteria and parasites is a major reason why humans are flourishing on the earth. Yet even in the most affluent of countries and the richest of cities, the causes of a Read More >>

Tara a Helping Hearts Resident Rescue

It’s easy to take a safe, secure and healthy living environment for granted. Most people grow up without having to worry about these seemingly simple requirements. They are just there, provided by an invisible network of parents and family, friends and co-workers. It is a part of the social contract. Yet for a small, but Read More >>

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Heather

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Heather from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Coming from a family with a history of bi-polar disorder did not help Heather when domestic violence reared its head in both of her marriages, the latter of which left her sexually battered, destitute and living alone–after an ugly divorce—in an apartment complex inhabited Read More >>

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Janette

Helping Hearts Foundation Resident Janette from Helping Hearts Foundation on Vimeo. Waylaid in Las Vegas by cardiac arrest while on a trip to Illinois to visit her grandchildren, one of the nation’s first female forklift operators was attacked by a ruthless mugger. Repeated kicks to the head resulted in severe brain trauma, three stints in Read More >>