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...
Poor Sleep Quality Increases Suicide Risk for Older Adults – Stanford University
Poor Sleep Quality Increases Suicide Risk for Older Adults – Stanford UniversityIn a study, participants who reported poor sleep had a 1.4 times greater chance of death by suicide within a 10-year period than those who reported sleeping well. Older adults suffering from sleep disturbances are more likely to die...
UK Study: Brains of Those Who Regularly Go Online Decline More Slowly Than Those Who Don’t
UK Study: Brains of Those Who Regularly Go Online Decline More Slowly Than Those Who Don’t Surfing the internet and sending emails can prevent memory loss in the elderly and may already be helping in the fight against dementia in Britain, say scientists. An eight-year study of almost 6,500 Britons...
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 AlzheimerÛªs disease (AD) compared to...
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...
The Charlotte Today Show – Caregiver Stress. How to Spot It. How to Relieve It.
The Charlotte Today Show – Caregiver Stress. How to Spot It. How to Relieve It.
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...
Experts Now Say Forget LTC Insurance and Spend Down Your Assets for Medicaid Instead
A study by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, revealed that long-term care insurance makes financial sense only for the richest 20 to 30 percent of unmarried people. For the rest, it makes more sense to spend down assets and then letting Medicaid pick up the tab. The caveat to...
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 AlzheimerÛªs 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...