Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Jun 12th, 2008
KLRI has released the 2008 State of the Science, which examines "the vicious triad" of the aging process.
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May 30th, 2008
High social integration also delays memory loss, leading to better quality of life for seniors. Further researches will look at types of social integration mostly affecting memory loss and will try to find ways to improve it.
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May 12th, 2008
The recognition of age-related crackles is important, because such clinically unimportant crackles are so common among elderly patients that, without knowledge of this phenomenon, their existence might interfere with the physician's management of patients with suspected heart failure or presumable pulmonary disease.
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Apr 30th, 2008
Movement is truly one of the best remedies we have available to us, especially as we age.
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Apr 22nd, 2008
Life expectancy in US drops especially in women and people living in poorer countries.
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Apr 21st, 2008
Anticholinergic drugs, such as medicines for stomach cramps, ulcers, motion sickness, and urinary incontinence, may cause older people to experience greater decline in their thinking skills than people not taking the drugs.
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Apr 17th, 2008
Men are facing memory loss problems earlier than women do.
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Mar 27th, 2008
Average life expectancy continues to increase, and today's older Americans enjoy better health and financial security than any previous generation. However, rates of gain are inconsistent between the genders and across age brackets, income levels and racial and ethnic groups.
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Mar 27th, 2008
More than a third of people over age 70 have some form of memory loss.
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Mar 26th, 2008
Insulin has a previously unknown effect that plays a role in aging and lifespan.
