Health

If you’ve never experienced it, consider yourself lucky. But for the more than 749 million people worldwide who suffer from the ringing, buzzing, pulsing noises that they hear inside their ears or head (with no corresponding external noise that anyone else can hear), the experience of tinnitus is one that…

It’s an age-old problem. Or rather, it’s an old-age problem: How do you deal with your increasingly “cranky” bladder, that either demands urgent attention, or that leads to embarrassing “streams” at inconvenient times? We’ve touched on this topic before and it’s likely many have personal familiarity with the issue. But…

With continued disappointing news about forthcoming drugs to address Alzheimer’s, you might begin to despair that there’s little you can do to prevent an Alzheimer’s or dementia diagnosis and that you may as well throw up your arms in distress. However, as we’ve pointed out in previous posts, there are…

It’s been called a public health epidemic and looking at the data it’s not hard to see why. With estimates that by 2030 one in two US adults will be obese and with consistently rising weight gains reported, the implications for the health of our country (and our aging adults)…

While it may come as a surprise to young people, older adults- even very old adults- continue to have sex into their later years. While not universal, the numbers are still impressive. According to the National Poll on Health Aging, 40% of adults between the ages of 65-80 say they…

Whether it’s the summer heat or the summer doldrums, you may be having trouble motivating yourself to go on daily walks these days. While we’ve certainly touted the benefits of a walking routine to support healthy aging, after a while the same routine may get a little dull and won’t…