Each year, about 14 million older adults in the United States report that they have fallen. Unreported falls are estimated to bring the total number of falls by seniors to …
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Category: Aging in a Home Environment
Remodeling Projects for Seniors Who Plan to Age in Place
Surveys consistently show that most older adults hope to age in place. Maintaining community and family ties are common motivations to remain in a family home after retirement. Better weather …
Continue ReadingHelping Parents Decide: Home Caregivers or Assisted-Living?
As parents grow older, their adult children may be called upon to help them make decisions about their future. Those decisions can be complicated with a parent suffers from a …
Continue ReadingA Path Forward for People Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners
About 6.2 million Americans who are 65 or older are living with dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease. About two-thirds of those individuals are women. Almost three-quarters of people with dementia …
Continue ReadingHow Aging Impairs Immunity and Increases the Risk of a COVID-19 Infection
The risk of serious illness or death associated with an infection increases with age. The body’s mechanisms that resist infections begin to weaken, on average, at age 50. The risk …
Continue ReadingElderhood: A Geriatrician’s Eyeview
Geriatrician Louise Aronson set out to write a book that promises to “look at old age in new ways.” But the first challenge, she explained recently, was the title she …
Continue ReadingThe Look and Feel of Downsizing
When it comes to choosing where to live as we age, the world seems to be divided into two camps: those who swear they want to be carried out of …
Continue ReadingThe Age-In: A Flashback in Learning About Aging
The Age-In. It was something of a flashback — modeled after the Teach-Ins of the 1960s, which were characterized by peer-to-peer talking and listening sessions rather than the more formalized …
Continue Reading30 Years of Research on Aging: Six Scientists Talk of Top Discoveries
Most people in the U.S., where the average life expectancy is 78 years old, live about 20{d0e74b8a3596e4326b45924d39792f257a1f9983beed4201831d386befd3d18e} of their lives with a chronic disease of aging such as osteoarthritis, Type …
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