Healthy Aging

If there are days you wish you could tell your body’s aging process just to slow down, or times you wish you could capture some of the energy and vitality you felt as a younger person, you’re not alone. Most of us would relish feeling more youthful and extending our…

 As we’ve previously posted, social connections in your life appear to be critical for all sorts of health parameters as you get older. Covid underscored that even for the best of reasons, isolating older adults can cause serious negative consequences to their physical and emotional well-being. Even “weak ties,” i.e.,…

For LGBTQ Americans of all ages, this is a disorienting moment. While much of the country, and the world, has become inclusive and supportive of the rights of the LGBTQ community to live in dignity and with respect, at the same time, extreme political operators are proposing to not only…

Remarkably, no matter how much we report on the benefits of walking for both physical and cognitive health, new research continues to be published that enhances and strengthens our understanding of the value of walking for healthier aging. Whether it’s reducing your mortality risk, maintaining your cardiovascular health, or lifting…

With Father’s Day around the corner, and Memorial Day behind us, many may have visions of relaxing in the hammock or sitting on the beach and diving into some new reads. There are loads of reading lists just out for your summer reading pleasure, some with breezy fiction titles, others…

Maybe you wonder why agebuzz spends so much time focused on balance and fall prevention. Well, as we’ve previously pointed out, around the world falls are the primary cause of accidental deaths and now we have new data reporting that fatal falls more than doubled among US older adults, from…