Topic: National Institute on Aging

BC-US--Aging America-Long Distance Caregiving,146

BC-Aging America-Long Distance Caregiving,146 January 26, 2012 17:30 GMT . . Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar By MATT SEDENSKY ...
If there's one big lesson I've learned over the past decade while training thousands of health and wellness coaches and coaching many clients, it's ...

More Americans Living to 90, U.S. Census Finds

More Americans are living to 90 and beyond, and by 2050 their ranks could reach almost 9 million, a new U.S. Census Bureau report finds.. . In ...

U.S. autopsy guidelines revised for Alzheimer's

PARIS (Reuters) - For many years, an autopsy done by a pathologist was considered the best way to confirm the presence of Alzheimer's disease.But new guidelines proposed on Sunday by the U.S. National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's ...
A study presented in November, 2010 at a meeting of the Gerontolgoical Society of America, suggests the ability to age well lies in large part to your state of mind. Danilea Jopp of Fordham University in New York studied some 350 older ...
Axiron has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first topical testosterone solution to be applied to the underarm, makers Eli Lilly and Acrux said in a news release.. Previously approved forms of testosterone replacement therapy have ...

Ways to Improve Memorization

As we get older, our ability to remember names, places, faces and even major details may diminish. For example, if you want to remember to pick up dog food, then mentally associate dog food with something you will see during your routine ...

6 Steps to Aging Well

Living life to the fullest is all about striving for a mind-body balance every day. I'll bet you didn't know that according to the Census Bureau, in 1990 there were 38,300 centenarians. That's a whole lot of gray ...

What is gerentology?

Gerentology is the study of old age. Dr. Robert Baker , now called the father of Gerentology, is a psychiatrist,whose life work is a testament to the elderly,. He? recently died of Leukemia in New York Mt. Sinai Hospital at the age ...

Arthritis pain mars later years, survey finds

0 . Arthritis pain can mar the last few years of life, according to a new study. Moderate to severe pain was common in one-quarter of the people ...