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Cocoa-extract May Prevent Alzheimer’s
Cocoa-extract May Prevent Alzheimer’s Talk about a mouth-watering study. Cocoa-extract may reduce damage to nerve pathways seen in AlzheimerÛªs. Researchers have found that a specific preparation of cocoa-extract called Lavado may reduce damage long before people develop symptoms. A study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
We Need Better Nursing Home Staffing Levels – You Can Help
We Need Better Nursing Home Staffing Levels – You Can Help The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care recently launched a campaign to advocate for better nursing home staffing levels. Their contention, which I agree, is that higher staffing levels result in higher quality of care and can be...
Senior Sex and Other Antics – What Can We Say – Read On
Senior Sex and Other Antics – What Can We Say – Read On From The Week – Item One: A 113-year-old woman married her 70-year-old boy toy in a ceremony at their Chinese nursing home. “She takes good care of me, and gives me her portion of meat during meals,”...
CBS Reports We Have a Way to Go in Financially Preparing for Retirement
CBS Reports We Have a Way to Go in Financially Preparing for Retirement In a special report, Eye on America: Retirement, CBS News is exploring the changing nature of retirement and how to prepare for the future. Here are some of the highlights from their first installment. Roughly half of...
Can Caffeine Fight Alzheimer’s? Possibly.
Can Caffeine Fight Alzheimer’s? Possibly. Tau deposits, along with beta-amyloid plaques, are among the characteristic features of Alzheimer’s disease. These protein deposits disrupt the communication of the nerve cells in the brain and contribute to their degeneration. A team led by Dr. Christa E. MÌ_ller from the University of Bonn...
Led an Intellectual Stimulating Life? You Have a Better Chance of Warding Off Alzheimer’s.
Led an Intellectual Stimulating Life? You Have a Better Chance of Warding Off Alzheimer’s. In a JAMA study researchers suggest that high lifetime intellectual enrichment may delay the onset of cognitive impairment by almost nine years in carriers of the APOE4 genotype, a risk factor for Alzheimer disease, compared with...
Taking a Statin for Cholesterol? You Still Need to Exercise.
Taking a Statin for Cholesterol? You Still Need to Exercise. Older men who were prescribed statins (the cholesterol-lowering medications associated with muscle pain, fatigue and weakness) engaged in modestly lower physical activity according to a recent JAMA study. David S.H. Lee, Pharm.D., of Oregon State University/Oregon Health and Science University...
Physical Activity May be Best Option for Middle-aged Women Who are Overweight or Obese to Avoid Heart Disease – Video
Physical Activity May be Best Option for Middle-aged Women Who are Overweight or Obese to Avoid Heart Disease – Video
Long-Term Care Expectation and Reality – Few Prepared. More Expect Family to Take on Burden of Caregiving.
Long-Term Care Expectation and Reality – Few Prepared. More Expect Family to Take on Burden of Caregiving. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research undertook a major study of public attitudes in 2013 related to long-term care in the United States. The report found that few Americans age 40...