Smartphone Apps To Monitor Your Health

I think that it is important for us, especially as seniors, to monitor our health as much as we can, and I have found that using my iPhone and health apps really helps me to do this.
Of course, the most important thing is for us to do our best to take care of our health, exercise, eat healthy, get enough sleep, and all of that kind of stuff.
However, I find that when I am keeping records of this and can look at the overall picture each day, it really helps me to keep on track, and I wanted to share some of the health apps that I have found to be useful for this.

The main app that connects everything together is the Health app. It comes already installed on all iPhones, so it might only be an Apple product; but probably other systems have a similar app. Most of the other apps will sync with the Health app, so you can have the overall information all in one place.

My Apple Watch tracks all of my exercise, including swimming, as well as keeping a constant monitor of my heart rate.

Carbmanager is the app that I use to track my food intake, and it is very easy to use (I like it much better than My Fitness Pal), and it shows me all of the nutritional components of each food that I eat, as well as tracking water intake.

Sleepmatic , combined with the Apple Watch, tracks my sleep patterns, so I can tell if I am resting well or not.

Heart Star is a blood pressure app. Although it does not check your BP itself, it does sync with many BP monitors, or you can add the readings manually. Since the BP cuff that I have does not sync with anything, I add the measurements in manually at this point.

My Apple Watch constantly monitors my pulse rate, but there is also a phone app called Cardiio that will check your heart rate using the camera and flashlight from your phone.

There are a lot of other health apps that would fit for special health needs, like for diabetics, so it can’t hurt to look though some of the available apps to see which ones meet your need for health monitoring.

 

I can see where something like that would be a help with older people with memory problems, who might wander off somewhere and get lost. I have seen facebook alerts for elderly people who are lost and all they can offer is where that person was last seen.
I have Find Friends on my iphone, so my family can always tell where I am at, and the Apple Watch also has an emergency button on it, so if I was alone and fell, or in some kind of an accident, all I have to do is hold the button down and it will call emergency for me.
I think that I can also use SIRI to make emergency phone calls right from the watch, but I haven’t experimented with that kind of thing.

 

No apologies needed, @Gloria Mitchell ! I actually loved your answer........it was just so YOU.......and as I was laughing about it, I was reading it to Bobby because it was so funny.
Not everything works for everyone, and we all need to do what works for us.
I love swimming and when we go to the fitness center, I swim or do water exercises. Bobby uses the weights and machines and does bodybuilding exercises.
If I had to do exercises on those machines, you would have to literally DRAG me to get me to the fitness center.

For me, being able to monitor what is going on with my body is important; but that does not mean that it is what everyone else needs to do. It is a wonderful thing that you are not needing to worry about monitoring your health, Gloria.

 

Unless you are actually at the doctor’s office, you probably would not get totally accurate readings, that is true, @Martin Alonzo . However, I can get an overall picture of what my heart is doing, what nutrients I am getting from my diet, and how much exercise I am getting each day.
Just the fact of keeping a record also helps me to keep on track, and try to be sure to get enough exercise and eat healthy foods as opposed to snacking on junk food.