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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30 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% of their lives with a chronic disease of aging such as osteoarthritis, Type …
Continue ReadingFeeding Seniors: Tips for Caregivers and Families
While everyone needs nourishing and well-balanced daily meals, caregivers and families need to recognize this is especially true for seniors. Many seniors have medical conditions, such as diabetes, that require …
Continue ReadingWill I Recognize When It’s Time to Move?
There are several ways to preplan and consider when you might want to move from your home. How do you set the milestones and stay accountable … or do you …
Continue ReadingSeniors’ Silent Cries for Help
Of all the unexpected changes, diminutions, and just plain annoyances that aging inevitably brings with it, those in the know agree that the hardest is losing what they’ve come to …
Continue ReadingSeniors and S-E-X
In American society, which seems hellbent on shunning the reality that aging is a natural part of living, the idea of seniors having sex suffers from double taboos. And yet, …
Continue ReadingAging and the Art of Coping
Perhaps the greatest challenge seniors face is accepting who they are now, not trying to remain the way they used to be. That’s easier for some of the changes wrought …
Continue ReadingTruths and Myths About Your Aging Brain
“Right now, you’ve got neurons in your brain that have ‘Vacancy’ signs on them,” the Institute on Aging’s Patrick Arbore recently told a capacity crowd gathered to hear his pronouncements …
Continue ReadingKeeping Seniors Safe in the Kitchen
Many families grew up with the kitchen as a focal point and central gathering place in the home. For many seniors who still live at home, they now prepare a …
Continue ReadingA Legal Check-Up: Getting the Medical Care You Want
In a kinder, easier, more foolproof world, there would be one document allowing people to indicate what medical care they prefer to have provided or withheld. And it would be …
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