Washed Out: How To Protect Your Hands From Excessive Hand Washing
March 18, 2020
So by now, if you’re following CDC guidance, your hands are looking pretty raw and unhappy. Because, as you know, hand washing has been promoted as one of the primary and most important ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And it’s not just the once over under the…
Beauty Basics: Mature Women Share Their Beauty Tips
March 11, 2020
Between social media and celebrity websites, you may have experienced FOMO- Fear Of Missing Out. For many women, that fear has to do with missing out on beauty secrets and products of great looking older women. For example, while Elizabeth Warren had to bow out of the presidential race, her…
Updates and Additions: The Latest News On The Corona Virus And Older Adults
March 11, 2020
As fast as the Coronavirus seems to be spreading, so too does our understanding of who’s at risk and how we can best protect ourselves and our loved ones. Since last week, one fact has become quite clear: According to the CDC, older adults, and especially those over 80 or…
Too Much: Rising Obesity Rates And Accelerated Aging
March 4, 2020
It’s pretty common to put on a few extra pounds as we get older. But it’s one thing for your slacks to feel snug and another to gain so much weight that you put your health at risk. And that’s exactly what’s happening to almost ½ of all adults in…
Spread This News: Coronavirus And Older Adults
March 4, 2020
By now you’ve likely heard about the coronavirus, the respiratory viral infection that appears to spread from person-to-person by respiratory droplets. While our understanding of the disease, its origins and spread within our communities is rapidly evolving (the news in this post is current as of March 4th, 2020), at…
Running The Risk: Factors That May Speed Up Or Slow Down Cognitive Decline
March 4, 2020
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,…