by Julie Ann Anderson on May 9, 2011
Middle-aged adults with diabetes are much more likely to develop age-related conditions than their counterparts who don’t have diabetes, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Health System and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Adults between 51 and 70 with diabetes developed age-related ailments like cognitive impairment, incontinence, falls, dizziness, vision impairment [...]
by Julie Ann Anderson on March 25, 2011
by Linda A. Jacobsen, Mary Kent, Marlene Lee, and Mark Mather (February 2011) In 2011, the oldest baby boomers—Americans born between 1946 and 1964—will start to turn 65. Today, 40 million people in the United States are ages 65 and older, but this number is projected to more than double to [...]
by Julie Ann Anderson on March 9, 2010
If you’re not familiar with it, The New York Times has a well-written blog column in the health section called The New Old Age. The column often features topics of caring and coping with stories of people who are being full-time family caregivers either for a spouse, a parent of other loved one. There are [...]