It’s a well known fact that human lifespans have increased markedly over the last century. Even taking this into account, it’s still quite an accomplishment to live past the ripe old age of 100. But imagine not only living well ...
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The Twenty-One Expressions of the Face
If asked, most people would probably say that face can convey a fairly limited number of emotions. Researchers have long believed that the face can only make six expressions – happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust. In fact, the ...
Read More »Is the “Mid-Life Crisis” Real? Science Weighs In
You’ve no doubt heard about people hitting a so-called “mid life crisis.” Generally speaking, this term is used to describe a period of time when a person is greatly dissatisfied with his or her life. There has long been a ...
Read More »Is There A Connection Between Anemia and Dementia?
Probably the worst part of getting older is the impact of age on the body’s health. Seniors face a number of health-related problems, ranging from declining vision to arthritis to cardiovascular disease. Two issues that millions of senior citizens must ...
Read More »Sitting and Disability Risk for Seniors
There’s a good reason why the phrase “couch potato” is considered a pejorative term. People who spend hours on end anchored to their coach generally aren’t in the best of shape, and as a result tend to be in less-than-ideal ...
Read More »Can Spousal Death Threaten Your Health?
There are fewer things more painful in life than the passing of a loved one. The grieving process can last for months or years, and can make life’s challenges much more difficult. Aside from the emotional fallout, studies have found ...
Read More »Microchips: A New Kind of Hearing Aid
Along with medicinal drugs, medical technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the last several decades. In the past several decades, devices such as MRIs, CT scanners and ultrasound machines have become commonplace in hospitals. Even today, medical science ...
Read More »Listening to Your Body: Exercising For Older Adults
No matter well you treat your body, eventually time manages to catch with everyone. Even healthy people eventually realize that they simply cannot do the things they once did, and need to make concessions to their advancing age. This doesn’t ...
Read More »Six Important Nutrients for Seniors
It’s no secret that aging presents the body with various challenges, ranging from declining mental sharpness to thickening waistlines to increasingly stubborn aches and pains. As if seniors didn’t have enough to be concerned about, age also makes it more ...
Read More »How Playing an Instrument Preserves the Mind
For millions of Americans, there is nothing more enjoyable than spending hours shredding on guitar, slapping bass guitar strings or wailing away on a drum kit. Furthermore, many more would pick up an instrument if only they had the patience, ...
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