Off The Cuff: Be Careful Monitoring Your Blood Pressure
September 20, 2023
So what do your numbers add up to? Your blood pressure numbers, that is. High blood pressure often has no symptoms yet is the cause of substantial ill health and premature death (estimates are over 650,000 US deaths per year are related to high blood pressure). So it’s critical that…
Detecting Dementia: How Can You Be Screened For Dementia?
July 26, 2023
There’s no doubt that we have entered an era when important opportunities will exist to delay or diminish the symptoms of dementia. As we’ve been covering in agebuzz, there is now a new drug (Leqembi) available to delay impairment and decline in patients with mild cognitive impairment or the early…
Normal Aging: Memory Problems Are Not Always A Sign Of Dementia
January 18, 2023
We’ve all experienced it. Introduced to some new people in a social setting, you feel confused as to who was whom when discussing the gathering later that evening. Or, when asked a question, it takes you longer to retrieve the answer than it previously might have. Or maybe a friend…