Health

To date, the reality is sobering: physicians, patients, and families have little in their arsenal to combat cognitive decline once a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis has been made. Drug development continues to be disappointing and few medications currently on the market show real benefit. As we’ve previously said in agebuzz,…

It’s a good news/bad news story. The good news is that death rates from breast cancer are declining, even if not as fast and far as we would all hope. Women over 60 constitute the largest group of breast cancer survivors, so for many mature women, breast cancer has been…

If you’re an older adult or heading in that direction, chances are at some point, you will experience back pain. Estimates are that 70% of adults suffer from back pain, which is considered the leading cause of disability and tends to reach its height during your later years. In particular,…

You may remember back in January the Mediterranean Diet was proclaimed the best overall diet for 2020. With its focus on fruits, fish, veggies and olive oil, it’s consistently been touted as one of the best approaches to keeping you healthy as you advance in years. Now, new studies out…

For many of us, the day doesn’t (and can’t) formally begin until at least one cup of coffee has been consumed. It’s not a matter of choice or pleasure but rather a matter of survival. But every so often rumors circulate about whether coffee is healthy. The good news is…

No matter how committed you are to staying healthy as you age, no one is perfect. So we hope we can compensate for our vices in other ways to maintain our health. For example, an estimated ⅔ of us take dietary supplements. We spend $35 billion/year on these pills and…