Learning

Let’s face it: Keeping your brain strong and functional is essential for successfully navigating your later years. In fact, according to a recent AARP survey, ⅔ of Americans over age 40 are trying to embrace healthy habits that will maintain or improve their cognitive abilities. Most of us recognize that…

Virtually anyone who’s had interaction these days with the health care system finds plenty to complain about. Whether it’s affordability, insurance, access to care, or even the old-fashioned and often missing human interaction of the doctor-patient relationship, nothing feels easy or adequate anymore. It’s enough to throw up your hands…

Expert opinion about the value of both traditional board games and puzzles, and more tech-driven online games and mental challenges, has gone back and forth. While there’s certainly no harm in engaging in traditional board or online games, whether you can improve your cognition or enhance your memory by playing…

Whether you are a music producer (meaning you sing or play an instrument) or a music appreciator ( you listen to music or attend performances), the evidence is mounting that the presence of music in your life can be a powerful ally in maintaining cognitive functioning well into your later…

The science is pretty clear, and you can read it right here: Those of you who regularly read books may be strengthening your cognitive health and cognitive reserve, and are keeping your brain active in ways that lower the risk for dementia. Moreover, not only is reading a pleasurable experience,…

No doubt you’ve heard about the array of efforts underway by both serious scientists and serial entrepreneurs to extend the length of life well beyond current human boundaries. And you’ve also likely read, in both agebuzz and elsewhere, about efforts to extend your “healthspan” along with your life span: that…