Health

Raise your hand if you, too, have trouble hearing your dining companions in a restaurant or understanding the actors at your local theater. Working hard to comprehend dialogue and to hear what’s going on is an all too common effort for many of us once we reach a certain age….

As more women have entered the workforce, there have been necessary and important changes made to accommodate female employees, including arrangements during pregnancy and nursing once the baby is born. However, let’s be frank: For older women, menopause remains an unaddressed, and usually unaccommodated, situation in the workplace. Now, a…

A visit to the emergency room can be a scary and upsetting event no matter what your age. But for an older person, it can also be a sentinel event that marks a downward spiral in the life and functional ability of a senior living in the community. Writing in…

While Heart Health Month is still a couple of weeks away, it’s never too early to get updates concerning your own heart health. First to report is a study recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association that confirms what many have suspected: female heart attack victims are often suboptimally…

The data are in and are not encouraging: this is a harsh season for the flu virus and anyone who comes down with it. This year’s H3N2 virus causes many deaths, rapidly mutates, and the vaccine in place to prevent it is less effective than past years. For more info on…

Receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis can be devastating. Realizing that there are few, if any, effective treatments on the market only adds to the devastation. And while research continues, it’s clear the pharmaceutical industry is still struggling to come up with options. Just this week Pfizer announced they are giving up…