Health

So you’ve gotten both your vaccination shots and you’re 2 weeks beyond the second jab. Are you now out of the woods when it comes to being vulnerable to a COVID infection? The data suggest that all available vaccines are overwhelmingly effective in preventing serious illness and death from the…

While it may be challenging, we’ve never shied away from encouraging agebuzz readers to commit to strength training as a way to keep you physically, cognitively, and emotionally strong. Whether you’re working your core or preventing your muscles from shrinking, the benefits of strengthening muscles and staying strong are incalculable…

In the early months of the pandemic, especially when it became clear that older adults were at high risk of serious illness or even death from COVID, there was the hope that advance care planning (documenting your wishes regarding end-of-life care and appointing a health care proxy to speak on…

It may sound humorous, but to many of us, it’s deadly serious. A recent survey by OnePoll of 1000 US adults found that 40% of Americans don’t recognize themselves in the mirror at this point due to COVID. Moreover, 51% of those surveyed believe the pandemic has negatively affected how…

Have you encountered it? Perhaps it was a patronizing tone from someone you asked for help. Or perhaps it was the loss of a promotion at your office or the silence when you recently applied for a new job? Or, if you live in a less-developed country, perhaps you lost…

As the most common reason why individuals seek out medical care, pain represents a complex combination of factors, some concretely understood and recognizable with others more subjective, depending upon your own complex history. How you feel pain, how you withstand pain, and what you can do to address and manage…