Recent news stories have highlighted the challenges that transgender persons face in going about their everyday lives. For seniors who are transgender, and already vulnerable from the usual sorts of challenges older persons face, the barriers to health, well being and safe living conditions can be enormous. Most transgender seniors…

While no one can predict your future, the chances of your needing help as you age, either in your home, in an outpatient setting or even in an institution, are fairly high. The help you need might be casual and low key, so that your costs will be modest, but…

While it’s widely assumed that osteoporosis is a natural part of aging, that’s actually not true. What is true is that May is National Osteoporosis Month.  It’s therefore a good time to learn the facts and actions you can take to sustain bone health and avoid bone breaks. It’s been…

Good morning and welcome to agebuzz… Headlining today’s topics:   -Get On Your Feet: Exercises For Better Aging -Hunger Pains: The Prevalence of Malnutrition In Older Adults -What’s App: A New Online Club For Older Tech Users -View Finder: Virtual Reality Headsets In Nursing Homes -Life & The Pursuit of Happiness:…

While everyone seems to have an opinion on how to live a long life, those in the 100+ years category may be especially well positioned to offer some advice. And for at least some of these centenarians, their long lives owe much to their avoidance of one particular category of…

Since the late 1930’s researchers at Harvard have been studying two sets of men: those who were college students at Harvard and those from an economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Boston who had little in common with the students except age. Since their adolescence, these two groups have been studied to…