Survey Finds High Alzheimer’s Awareness A large survey has found that most people would rapidly seek medical advice if they developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The survey ...
Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist. At age 40, he was a mature ...
Book Review: Mortal Bonds Losing one parent is devastating. But losing both parents within 13 days of each other? In his eBook memoir, Mortal Bonds, John Tsilimparis recounts his parents’ difficult deaths, his father from various health conditions and ...
How We Age: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Growing Old As anyone who has ever cared for an elderly person can attest, time takes its role in the aging process very seriously. For caregivers, be they family members or medical professionals, finding a way to ...
Alzheimer’s and Coping with the Holidays The holiday season is often a time that many of us look forward for visiting and reconnecting with family and friends. Sometimes, however, this season can be sad ...
Heart, Blood Pressure Medications and Dementia heart and blood pressure medications reduce dementia risk?
Drugs for high blood pressure and heart disease have been linked to protection from Alzheimer's disease ...
Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It Dr. Gareth Moore has authored several puzzle and brainteaser books aimed at exercising the “brain muscle.” Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It is Dr. Moore’s latest work in this field. In the introduction ...
Conquering Depression in the Golden Years Chances are, at some point, you or someone you know will encounter a friend or family member who is a senior and struggling with or exhibiting signs of depression. This is an illness that is ...
Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad Bob Morris is lucky in love, a fact he doesn’t initially appreciate. Surrounded by people who care about him, Bob still feels lonely and adrift. He wishes he could find the right guy, the perfect ...
Diet, Exercise Protect Brain in Later Life Research supports a healthy diet and moderate exercise for protection against cognitive decline and dementia. Results presented at last year's Alzheimer's ...
Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It Dr. Gareth Moore has authored several puzzle and brainteaser books aimed at exercising the “brain muscle.”. Train the Brain: Use It or Lose It is Dr. Moore’s latest work in this field. In the introduction ...
To Grandmother’s House We Go Miranda is at a loss. Her 8-year-old granddaughter Melody has come for a three-week visit so that her mother Terry can save on ...
Rejecting Childhood Rejection “I can’t figure it out,” one of the writers to Psych Central's "Ask the Therapist" column wrote recently. “My parents never give me any emotional support or even seem to like me. I always get ...
Experts Challenge Caffeine-Tinnitus Link UK scientists have tackled the common belief that caffeine causes or exacerbates tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. They found that cutting out coffee, tea, cola and chocolate may make the symptoms worse.
For many years, ...
Priceless Presents That Don’t Cost a Thing Lunching with a group of friends, all of us 50 and up, the conversation turned to holiday giving. (Of course. It’s that time of year.) “I wish my kids would listen to me,” said Rita. ...
Strategies for Improving Memory How often has this happened to you: You enter a room and forget why you wanted to go into that room, or you cannot find your keys or your glasses? You may become frightened that ...
Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder, or IEED, is a condition in which a person experiences uncontrollable episodes of emotional expression. That is, they have episodes of crying, laughter, or anger that are not in line ...
Searching for Soul: A Survivor’s Guide Bobbe Tyler, author, nonfiction writer and retired communications coordinator for Lucasfilm Ltd, has written a book of the type, and in the style, that has kept her alive all these years. Her book, Searching ...
Finding Love after 60 During the last few months of her life, my grandmother Ruth, then 93, was too frail for family to adequately care for at home. With much reluctance, she and we all agreed that a nursing ...
Specialized Geriatric Hospital Units Aid Elderly Older people cared for in specialized geriatric hospital units tend to decline at a slower pace than those given conventional hospital care, recent research suggests.
Aging brings a certain amount of natural deterioration in cognitive performance, ...
60 On Up: The Truth About Aging in America When I was in graduate school in the mid-1970s, I felt strangely out of sync with my fellow students. Then I happened on Worlds of Pain, a groundbreaking book by Lillian Rubin about working-class life ...
