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Senior Health Worsening Though Much is in Our Control
Time to Take Control From my article at Ground Report: United Health Foundation recently released AmericaÛªs Health Rankings Senior Report ÛÒ A Call to Action for Individuals and Their Communities. It finds preventable chronic illness at troubling levels among seniors. Nationwide, about 80 percent of seniors are living with at...
Seniors Who Engage in Shopping Every Day Stay Healthier Longer
My father-in-law will not be happy with this report. In a study recently published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, it was found that seniors who engage in shopping every day, or almost every day, stay healthier longer than those who don’t get out of their homes as...
Older Adults Not Getting Preventive Screenings
A new report from agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services say that critical gaps exist between older Americans who receive preventive services and those who do not. Clinical prevention services examined in the report include: vaccinations that protect against influenza and pneumococcal disease screenings for the...
Americans Less “Nuts” As They Grow Older
As Americans grow older, they tend to become more emotionally stable—translating into longer, more productive lives, according to a new Stanford study published online in the journal Psychology and Aging. Between 1993 and 2005, researchers tracked about 180 Americans between the ages of 18 and 94. For one week every...
Americans Less "Nuts" As They Grow Older
As Americans grow older, they tend to become more emotionally stableäóîtranslating into longer, more productive lives, according to a new Stanford study published online in the journal Psychology and Aging. Between 1993 and 2005, researchers tracked about 180 Americans between the ages of 18 and 94. For one week every...
Dance Can Help Balance, Reduce Falls
New research that would make Fred Astaire happy indicates that seniors who undergo ÛÏdance therapyÛ typically have improved levels of balance and gait, as well as overall functionality and that helps to reduce their risk of falls. For their study, researchers used a dance-therapy program called The Lebed Method (TLM),...
Young Seniors Less Healthy Than Previous Generations
Americans in their 60s are less healthy than generations that preceded them. That according to a study published by the American Journal of Public Health. The authors compared two National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data sets, for 1988-1994 and for 1999-2004, to examine disabilities for adults age 60 to...
Walk Faster to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
This is almost too logical! Researchers at the Universit̩ Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris measured the walking speed of more than 3,200 seniors aged 65 to 85 and followed their health status over the next five years. Seniors who walked slower were 44% more likely to die during the...
Last Call for Alcohol Seniors
There has been a lot of made of studies that suggest two drinks a day can stave off functional decline in old age. New research suggests that it’s lifestyle, not liquor, that really helps. Researchers at the University of Ferrara, Italy, followed more than 3,000 seniors aged 70-79 to determine...