Cut Your Losses: New Research On How To Cut Your Risk Of Dementia
May 12, 2021
As the population ages and the incidence of dementia keeps rising, the need to be proactive and lessen your risk of being diagnosed with dementia becomes critical. We continue to have few viable treatment options and no cures on the horizon. So our best bet continues to be healthy living…
Shut-Eye: Reasons And Recommendations For Better Sleep
April 28, 2021
When you find yourself wide awake during the night, or up before the sunrise, do you feel anxious or wonder what’s wrong with you? Worrying about lack of sleep can, ironically, cause you to lose more sleep, but if it’s any consolation, you’re definitely not alone. The data suggest that…
Safe House: Where Will You Be Happiest Living Going Forward?
April 21, 2021
As we’ve previously highlighted in agebuzz, the pandemic has led many of us to consider, and reconsider, our current housing arrangements and what we may need and want going forward. It’s not just a matter of choosing an individual house, apartment, or senior living arrangement. It’s also a matter of…
For Your Pains: New Insights Into The Experience And Management Of Pain
April 14, 2021
As the most common reason why individuals seek out medical care, pain represents a complex combination of factors, some concretely understood and recognizable with others more subjective, depending upon your own complex history. How you feel pain, how you withstand pain, and what you can do to address and manage…
How To Proceed, When Your Own Pieces Of Paper Are Slipping Away? By Rita Schwartz
April 7, 2021
Rita Schwartz is a longtime agebuzz subscriber. A native New Yorker, she graduated with a degree in music from the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam and she has an MA from NYU in music therapy and government. She has had a long and varied career including working for the…
Fast Track: For Better Health, Walk Faster
April 7, 2021
If there’s one thing we’ve promoted, especially as an antidote to the perils of the pandemic, it’s to go outside and take a walk. Along with extolling the value of walking for your physical, emotional, and mental health, we’ve recommended some basic items to enhance the comfort of your walks….