The holiday season can make people contemplative. And quite often, it can also inspire them to accomplish one of life’s many “Should”—getting affairs in order such as completing advance health …
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Most adults will lose at least 30% of their muscle mass during their lifetimes. That frightening truth even has a scary-sounding name: sarcopenia—literally translated as the even scarier sounding “poverty …
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Even avowed Luddites can’t claim to be totally immune to the way older people are portrayed online — when you can find them there at all: a bit feeble, immobile, …
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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 …
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My friend Jack texted me the link to the same article three times in two days — his brain addled by a combination of lack of sleep and the stress …
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Nearly a decade after it was passed, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also glowingly or disparagingly referred to as “Obamacare,” depending on a person’s politics — …
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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 …
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There is no shortage of advice these days about how to deal with the “problem behavior” of people who have dementia, many of whom get more resistant as their conditions …
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Old age is getting younger. For the second year in a row, the life expectancy in the United States declined according to a recent bleak series of reports by various …
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Architect Erick Mikiten ticks off some of the top reasons many people fear growing older: perceived threats of being institutionalized, aging out of relevance, becoming progressively more isolated. And, he …
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