The arrival of Labor Day usually means the season’s last swim in the ocean or lap in the pool. But for seniors, the benefits from swimming are too significant to confine the activity to just a few months a year. Research has demonstrated swimming provides seniors with better cardiac and…

Compared with other nations, America stands out for its religiosity- but to which religions are we devoted? Turns out, as we are aging, religious affiliations are aging as well.  According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, several Presbyterian denominations, among other religions, are seeing their average congregant…

At some point you may get this call: your older loved one is in the hospital and doctors are monitoring the situation to determine what’s going on. With luck, nothing dangerous or life-threatening will be found and perhaps your loved one will leave the hospital after a day or two….

For some people, retirement means downsizing your living quarters and giving up some no longer needed furnishings. Lynne and Tim Martin decided to take this retirement activity to its extreme: Giving up their house and worldly possessions, the Martins have spent the last five years with two suitcases, two computers…

Many of us who have watched family members battle with Alzheimer’s have wondered if we, too, will someday succumb to that fate. In a certain percentage of Alzheimer’s cases, genetic inheritance does play a role. For those at high genetic risk there’s now a new research protocol to try to…

After 70 years of engaging in yoga, she probably knows a thing or two. In fact, Tao Porchon-Lynch, currently age 98, still shares her love and knowledge of yoga as the world’s oldest yoga instructor, according to the Guinness Book of Records. With her sold out classes in Westchester County,…