Exercise can prevent Alzheimer's disease, and now research shows it works as a great therapy, as well. Vigorous exercise not only makes Alzheimer's patients feel better, but it makes changes…
Vernon woman uses family experience to start From the Heart VERNON — Jazz guitarist Eddie Hazell lived an amazing life. He toured across North America, recorded several albums, and even had a book written about…
My patient was a proudly elegant woman in her 70s who lived alone. Her Parkinson’s disease had so severely restricted her ability to move that it would take her hours…
John Sorensen turned 92 the day after Christmas, and from the first time I met him, almost a year earlier, he said he wanted to die. Some days he had…
Rhode Island, the smallest state in the country, is the most dangerous state for senior drivers, a recent study says. An estimated 14 million Americans reported having been involved in…
Exercising three times a week could be more effective than medication in relieving the symptoms of major depression in elderly people and may also decrease the chances that the depression…
It’s a fate that boomers and older adults seek to escape: moving into a facility or in with their children. Even if they continue to live at home, they want to avoid…
Things are not always what they seem in the natural world. What looks like a snake could turn out to be a caterpillar, or a regular apple could be so much more. If you…
About one in 10,000 people seems to be a “slow ager” who lives to 100, sometimes even in spite of bad health habits, like smoking or exercising little, according to…
I came home yesterday from work and Mom came out to the kitchen to greet me. I said, “Mom, you have on my sweat pants!” We each have a pair…