Seniors Articles
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- Future Planning for Your Intellectually Disabled Adult Child
If you are in your mid to late 50s or older and have an intellectually disabled adult child living at home, you are part of the first generation whose disabled kids may well outlive them. ...
- Grandparenting a Disabled Child
Grandparenting is a delicious second chance for nurturing a child. Chances are you looked forward to using hard-won lessons from your experience as a parent to do it better this time. Chances are you looked ...
- Dating Later in Life
"At first, I felt like I was being unfaithful to my late husband," says Paula, a 65-year-old widow who recently began dating again. Sam, a 70-year-old retiree, wants to date, "But my grown kids don't ...
- Coping With Loneliness: Tips for Seniors
On the old television show "The Golden Girls," four, over-60 widows live together, providing each other companionship, friendship and emotional support. Many seniors, however, lack this kind of social network. In fact, loneliness is a ...
- Changing Our Routines and Habits
Humans are creatures of habit and routine. Just as it takes us 20 years or more to develop our adult personalities, we're also developing behaviors and habits that will stay with us for a lifetime. ...
- Inhaled Anesthetics Bring Alzheimer’s Risk
Experts recently have shed light on the link between general anesthetics and cognitive problems.
Anesthetics have been thought to cause cognitive dysfunction for a long time — the link was first highlighted in the 1950s. But ...
- Folic Acid Supplements Could Prevent Dementia
Folic acid supplementation could effectively prevent dementia in some people, recent research suggests.
The possibility that low folic acid is a modifiable risk factor for dementia has been extensively studied. Dementia is linked to the ...
- Emotions and Weight Affect Testosterone Levels
A recent study suggests men's testosterone levels are significantly affected by their health and lifestyle choices.
Testosterone levels reduce by about one percent a year in men over 40. A team from the New England Research ...
- Aging is a Time for Letting Go
So much of young adult life is about acquiring. Throughout our twenties and thirties, most people look for a mate, a good job, financial security, a good car, a fit and healthy body, a circle ...
- Stay Sexy Your Entire Life!
If you are over 50 and want the best that life has to offer, you probably desire a passionate, stimulating sex life. If you are under 50, you probably wonder what you have to look ...
- Caregiving Is a Two-Way Relationship
Helpers and elders are, of course, male as well as female. But for purposes of clarity, I am using the feminine pronoun, since most people in caregiving relationships are female.
Women traditionally take on the caregiving ...
- Dividing Things, Not Families
It was 10:45 on a warm summer day. Outside a stately mansion, parked on either side of the front door, were two large moving vans. Inside, the two van drivers and their assistants were becoming ...
- Taking Medication: Special Concerns in Older Adults
Have you ever been concerned about relapse after missing a few doses of antibiotic pills? Do medications tie knots in your stomach and make eating a chore? Did you ever forget if you’ve already taken ...
