Health

You’d be forgiven if you haven’t raced up too many flights of stairs in recent months. Between being hunkered down at home and having little urgency in your day-to-day life, it’s not likely you’re speeding up or down stairs either at home or at your office. More likely, you’re barely…

So it looks like we’re at the beginning of the end…or, are we at the end of the beginning? There’s no doubt that the arrival of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 is an unprecedented scientific breakthrough that will potentially save an untold number of lives and prevent serious illness…

Perhaps nothing says it’s holiday time more than the annual holiday party- something that most of us will, unfortunately, be missing this year due to the coronavirus. But while social distancing necessitates you skip the in-person get-togethers, new research out of Iowa State University suggests you may not want to…

You may not know it, but there’s a celebration going on this week: According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, December 7-11 is Older Driver Safety Awareness Week. This may have skipped your mind, as many of us aren’t driving much these days. According to a recent survey described by…

Even before the pandemic, the warning signs were blaring that excessive alcohol consumption was dangerous for brain health. Now, several months into the pandemic, it appears that excessive alcohol consumption and binge drinking has risen among older adults, following the stressors inflicted by the pandemic and resulting quarantine. In new…

Conventional wisdom suggests that osteoporosis (the bone disease involving loss of bone mass or creation of too little bone) is a disease most prevalent in older women. While both older men and even younger men and women can be diagnosed with it, the reality is that most in the medical…