Good morning and welcome to agebuzz… Headlining today’s topics:   -At Full Strength: Losing Weight While Maintaining Strength As You Age -Mixed Up: Minding The Risk Of Delirium For Older Patients -It’s Not All Downhill: The Upside of Aging -Serious Talk For Serious Illness: How And Why Are We Falling…

Getting married is always exciting and anxiety provoking- getting married in your 90s has got to heighten the level of excitement and anticipation. Getting married in your 90s, to a person of another race, adds more intrigue, and in this particular true life story, significant drama. Welcome to the story…

Are you beginning to plan your winter travel vacation? For some of us, cold weather becomes the impetus to seek out warmer climates or new locales- plans that can create some challenges as we get older. Especially for those of us without spouses or travel partners, solo travel can be…

So it’s November and the holidays are soon upon us…and with them, all the food that accompanies the celebrations. Some of us have willpower and discipline but some of us…well, you know who you are. Weight gain as we age is a never-ending battle for most of us. The good news is…

Always room for a little good news. It turns out that many of our personality traits and cognitive skills don’t automatically flee the moment we hit 50. In fact, some of life’s most beneficial skills and emotions seem to improve and crest only as we approach our senior years. For example, satisfaction…

It’s all too frequent that older people who become confused, disoriented or have a fluctuating mental state are assumed to just be experiencing symptoms of “aging.” But these symptoms could actually indicate delirium, a serious and often undiagnosed affliction that seniors can experience after surgery or more generally during hospitalization….