Some people worry about their health and other aspects of their life as they age. Not knowing what might happen as you get older can be very scary for many people. As a result, here are eight tips on how to manage the fear and anxiety of getting older in your life. Stay healthy: The first…
Moving Your Body Is Like a Tune-Up for Your Mind
Movement and exercise feel good, as you know if you’ve ever experienced a runner’s high, the restorative power of a pandemic afternoon walk, or a heart-pumping Zumba class. But what accounts for these benefits? The answer offered by science journalist Caroline Williams in Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind is deeper and more provocative than…
Conscious Aging: Reframing for Health and Happiness
Maria Shriver, author, journalist and activist for healthy aging, recently spoke to Tami Simon about the Radically Reframing Aging Summit they are collaborating on to promote a balanced view of aging. Maria is the founder of Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) which she established after her mother died of Alzheimer’s and following her awareness that two-thirds of people living with…
Understanding Alzheimer’s, the Basics
February 22, 2022
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Researchers have explored many complementary health approaches for preventing or slowing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is no strong evidence that any complementary health approach can prevent cognitive impairment. What the Science Says Following are some of the complementary health approaches that have been studied in recent years. Fish Oil/Omega-3s. Among the nutritional and dietary factors studied…
Aging Research Is Key to Balancing the Budget
Commentary Last week, I wrote that the path back to a balanced budget could not be simple stinginess, but smart reforms that produce long term returns of higher GDP and lower government spending. For instance, in the 1990s, I helped author four straight balanced budgets, during which we doubled the budget of the National Institutes…
Superfoods of the Longest-Living People
Do you want to live to be 110? You might be surprised by how many people are reluctant to answer that question with enthusiasm. Many fear their final decade will be full of pain. So a better angle would be to focus on one’s health span rather than life span. What if you could live to be 110 with…
Quick Test Tells You How Old You Really Are
Ryan Smith is the founder of TruDiagnostic, a commercial testing system that tests your biological age, as opposed to your chronological age. It’s can be a profoundly useful tool, because you need an objective barometer to tell you whether or not the things you’re doing to improve your health are actually having the desired impact….
We Need a New Paradigm for Final Wishes
For decades, Americans have been urged to fill out documents specifying their end-of-life wishes before becoming terminally ill—living wills, do-not-resuscitate orders, and other written materials expressing treatment preferences. Now, a group of prominent experts is saying those efforts should stop because they haven’t improved end-of-life care. “Decades of research demonstrate advance care planning doesn’t work….
Research Links Frailty to Dementia Risk
A new study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry suggests that seniors with frailty who adhere to a healthy lifestyle could reduce their risk for dementia. Researchers are seeing increasing evidence that taking steps toward healthier actions can significantly affect cognitive health. Researchers analyzed data from more than 196,000 adults older than…
Mid-Life Minimizing
Mom often told me, “Cheryl, none of us came here to stay always.” It always bothered me when she said that because I deeply feared losing her and Dad. Now I stand on the other side of that fear becoming reality, and my husband, Kevin, and I are around the same age my parents were…
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