Seniors Articles
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- Drug Effects on Alzheimer’s Patients Reassuring
Researchers have added further detail to their findings on the risks of common drugs for elderly people.
Dr. Chris Fox of ...
- What Death Can Teach Us about Life
I attended a funeral the other week for the husband of one of my colleagues. He was a relatively ...
- Life is Full of Transitions
Retirement: "removal or withdrawal from service, office, or business;" "withdrawal into privacy or seclusion."
No wonder this word retirement seems so inappropriate ...
- The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life
It’s disquieting to forget -- again -- where you left your glasses, where the car keys are, the name of that one woman at your daughter’s school. But everyone forgets, right? Especially these days, with ...
- The Mid-Life Crisis: An Opportunity in Disguise?
In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal hits his 39th birthday and finds himself in a ...
- Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
In the film Gigi, Maurice Chevalier sings about the advantages of aging in the song titled "I’m glad I’m not young anymore." Wendy Lustbader would agree with him. As she puts it in this book, ...
- 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 ...
- Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
- Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Depression in Older Adults
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is becoming increasingly widespread and research continues to suggest that it is an effective treatment for a broad range ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- Coffee May Prevent Dementia
Further evidence has come to light that drinking coffee may have a protective effect against dementia. Dementia and Alzheimer's disease are common problems in the elderly population. Although research is improving our knowledge of the ...
- Grief, Grandma’s Way
By the time she got into her 90s, my grandmother was a wise woman indeed. She was wise about life. She was also wise about death. As the youngest of eight, she had outlived all ...
- Challenges and Benefits for Grandparent Caregivers
When my grandfather's mother died in 1900 in rural Maine, it was his aunt who stepped in to raise him and his baby sister. When my friend Jill lost her mother in the 1950s, her ...
- Fairness and Reciprocity in Friendships
My friend Richard shook his head as he told me the story of his latest visit with his mother, Harriet, now in her late 80's.
"I'd really like to see Mildred," she said.
"So why don't you ...
