HEALTHY AGING

Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lifespan vs. healthspan

"With lifespan, people are trying to add years to life. For healthspan, we are trying to add life to your years."

Flu and Older Adults

Adults age 65 years and older are at higher risk of developing serious complications from flu. Annual influenza (flu) vaccination is recommended to help prevent flu and flu-related complications.  Three flu vaccines are preferentially recommended for adults 65 years and older, including higher dose and adjuvanted flu vaccines. Flu can be serious for everyone – but for adults age 65 years and older, the risk of flu-related complications and hospitalization is particularly high. Immune systems decline as adults...

Study of older patients suggests 1 in 5 cases of dementia may be attributable to vision impairment

Medical Xpress – Prior research has found that there may be a connection between hearing loss in aging people and the onset of dementia. In a new study, a team of health care researchers and geriatric specialists affiliated with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Michigan and the Duke University School of Medicine surveyed patient health care records and reported that approximately 1 in 5 cases of dementia could also be...

Mayo Clinic Q and A: When is it time for a knee replacement?

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis. When is a knee replacement appropriate? ANSWER: Osteoarthritis is an extremely common condition affecting over 500 million people worldwide. The knee is the most frequently affected joint. Knee osteoarthritis occurs when protective cartilage in the knee wears down leading to inflammation and pain. Commonly, patients will have bone spurs, and the normal shape of their knee is disrupted. Symptoms of knee osteoarthritis may develop slowly, or in some patients it...

How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients

Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.

Pope Francis, Battling Ill-Health, Begins Historic Asian Odyssey

NEWSWEEK – Pope Francis arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday at the start of a tour of Asia. After an overnight flight from Rome, the Pope was wheeled off the plane in his wheelchair in Jakarta. Indonesia is the first stop on a grueling tour for the 87-year-old that will also take him to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore. The Pope hopes to promote interfaith harmony between Catholics and Muslims in the country. There have been growing...

96-year-old California woman facing eviction from seniors home unless she coughs up $110K

Pacific Senior Living, the San Diego-based parent company of Pacific Grove Senior Living, served the 96-year-old with the eviction notice on Aug. 16, saying she had three days to send them $110,000 or face eviction.

“Exercise May Be the Single Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known”

Derek Thompson: Tell us a little bit about what you do. Euan Ashley: I’m a professor of cardiovascular medicine and genetics and data science at Stanford University in California. I study a variety of things. I love the extremes of human behavior, including exercise, something we’re going to talk about today. Thompson: I feel like it’s interesting, your work straddles two different buckets. On the one side, you’re looking into genetic mysteries that tell us things...

Untreated high blood pressure linked to Alzheimer’s risk

Untreated high blood pressure may significantly raise your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests.

What It Takes to Live Past 110

THE NEW YORK TIMES – One of the oldest men in the world died in August at the age of 111. The man, John Farringdon, was born about a year after the Titanic sank. Mr. Farringdon was one of very few people to have lived long enough to see the world evolve for over a century. And so have a handful of women who have died in recent years. Kane Tanaka survived two world wars, the 1918...

To Live Longer, Get to Know Your Toes

The study is believed to be the first to assess the association between levels of body flexibility and mortality.

A new Alzheimer’s study suggests where you live can affect the odds of a diagnosis

Researchers found that the odds of getting a formal dementia diagnosis in the U.S. differed based on location.

Study raises hopes that shingles vaccine may delay onset of dementia

“This is a significant result, comparable in effectiveness to the recent antibody drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. Administering the recombinant shingles vaccine could well be a simple and cheap way to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease."

Cholesterol 101 — What Your Levels Mean

WEBMD – We may associate cholesterol with fatty foods, but most of the waxy substance is made by our own bodies. The liver produces 75% of the cholesterol that circulates in our blood. The other 25% comes from food. At normal levels, cholesterol actually plays an important role in helping cells do their jobs. But cholesterol levels are precariously high in nearly 94 million Americans. Symptoms of High Cholesterol High cholesterol does not cause any symptoms. But it...

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