Every Month is Heart Month

We Bring Awareness to it in February, but ‘Every Month is Heart Month’

February is Heart Month, a time to bring attention to the importance of cardiovascular health, and what we can to reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease. Heart disease affects approximately 2.4 million Canadian adults, and is the second leading cause of death in Canada. So, to ensure that we live healthy lives, it’s truly important that “every month is Heart Month.”   

Heart Health Concerns

Common factors that affect heart patients include not taking needed medications at regular intervals, a lack of care coordination among multiple doctors and even unintentional behavior, such as forgetfulness.

Once we reach age 65, it’s even more important to maintain a healthy by staying physically active and eating a proper diet.

How Caring Hearts Can Help

An Exceptional Caregiver from Caring Hearts® Home Care can help make sure heart patients receive transportation to all of their medical appointments and to pick up prescriptions. They can also help able patients stay physically active and even help clients stay committed to healthy nutrition.

Additionally, they can monitor how a client is feeling and behaving, then alert family members or other trusted associates if there appears to be a problem.

Finally, our exclusive monitoring service, Direct Link®, offers a wide range of products from monitors to medication dispensers that alert clients when it’s time to take their medicine – a great help with medication adherence.