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National Senior Safety Week November 6 – 12, 2011
The Canada Safety Council has designated the week of November 6th – 12th as National Senior Safety Week. Keeping their driver’s licence gives independence for mature Canadian drivers, especially for...
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Arthritis results from inflammation, not just wear and tear
There’s strong agreement that any significant injury, such as a tear in the knee’s shock-absorbing meniscus, can lead to arthritis. A lifetime of repetitive motion, such as deep-knee bends, also boosts...
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Exercise Is The Best Medicine For Aging
Exercise does much more than just cut your risk of Alzheimer’s. Many of the effects of aging are caused by muscles becoming weaker and frail. UBC Okanagan assistant professor Gareth Jones of the...
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What makes life worth living?
If anyone can answer the question, What is the meaning of life, presumably seniors would have the best chance. They have been at it longer and perhaps they develop better insights. The latest Positive...
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Healthy Brain for Life
This is a guest post by Jack Meyers. There cannot be enough said about the need to keep your brain healthy as you age. Degenerative diseases likes Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are frightening to...
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Top Up Your Energy When Caregiving For A Sick Relative
This is a guest post by Alisha Webb. Taking care of sick person in the family can be a nightmare. If it’s hard on the sick person to face so much suffering, it’s equally hard on you to be giving...
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Did You Get Your Flu Shot
Dr. Jesse Goodman, chief scientist at the FDA, emphasizes the importance of getting that flu shot and even now it isn’t too late. He noted that this season’s flu presented several challenges, and...
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Is Health Information Technology Making The Pharmaceutical Industry Safer?
This is a guest post by Tasia Galimi. Pharmacies carry some major responsibilities on their shoulders: Much patient care comes down to the services provided by a pharmacy and the pharmacy’s handling...
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Keeping Your Brain Strong
This is a guest post by Amanda Carlson. I was working in a very large, very busy office until I was about forty-six and because of all the demands on my time I was always leaving myself reminders....
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Relaxation therapy may improve your mind
A concern for many seniors is those occasional memory lapses when something they know so well does not come quickly to the tongue. Could this be an early sign of some type of dementia? Some seniors may...
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Age-related changes influence your dietary needs and your appetite
This article is contributed by Peter Smith. It is an indisputable fact that as we age our bodies change. Our metabolisms tend to slow down and we slowly get weaker. Good diet and exercise can stave off...
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This blog now shows Contributor advertisements
You may have noticed in the sidebar a small advertisement that looks like the image to the right. This is for Google Contributor which has now gone live after running for a time on an invitation basis...
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Conversation with the incomparable Normal Lear
Here is the intro to one of the very best TED interviews I have had the pleasure of watching. In the 1970s (and decades following), TV producer Norman Lear touched the lives of millions with...
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Alzheimer’s: Most important risk factors seem to be linked to diet
In case you didn’t know this before, every 60 seconds in the US someone develops Alzheimer’s disease. As a matter of fact, Alzheimer’s is the 6th most common cause of death in America. Even though...
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Yoga and Focusing Past Depression
Those who practice yoga, even the first time, can attest to the fact that the cleansing feeling yoga brings practitioners after a class isn’t simply in the accomplishment of using muscles and tendons...
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Healthy Brain for Life
This is a guest post by Jack Meyers. There cannot be enough said about the need to keep your brain healthy as you age. Degenerative diseases likes Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are frightening to...
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