Alcohol and Older Adults – What You Don’t Know

Alcohol and Older Adults – What You Don’t Know You can become more sensitive to alcohol as you get older. The same amount of alcohol can have a greater effect on an older person than on someone who is younger. Heavy drinking can make some health problems worse. Common health...

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Combating Senior Scams

Combating Senior Scams From ALFA In the last fiscal year, the United States Postal Inspection Service obtained more than 400 arrests and 410 convictions nationwide, and most of those schemes disproportionately targeted older Americans. Most of these schemes were related to foreign lottery/sweepstakes schemes, work-at-home scams and sweetheart scams. Illegal...

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Dementia Risk Quadrupled in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Dementia Risk Quadrupled in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment In a long-term, large-scale population-based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease (AD) compared to...

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Running Better Than Walking for Older Adults

Running Better Than Walking for Older Adults A study reveals that seniors who regularly run for their exercise can slow their aging process more so than those who prefer walking. Running mitigates the age-related deterioration of ‰ÛÏwalking economy,‰Û the metabolic cost to perform an motion. Metabolic cost is defined as...

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Clogged Arteries Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Clogged Arteries Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment In a study of nearly 2,000 adults, researchersåÊat the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center found that a buildup of plaque in the body’s major arteries was associated with mild cognitive impairment. “It is well established that plaque buildup in the arteries...

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Annual Cost Per Person with Alzheimer’s Will Double to $140,000+ by 2050

As baby boomers age, shifting nationwide demographics with them, the financial burden of Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease on the United States will skyrocket from $307 billion annually to $1.5 trillion, USC researchers announced. Health policy researchers at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics used models that incorporate...

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