Have you taken a few minutes lately to stop what you’re doing, unplug from your electronic devices and just focus on your breathing? If you’re a woman who is going through menopause or will be in the near future, this basic, beginning practice of mindf… Continue reading
Were you aware that, for women, jaw pain could signal a heart attack? Here are five things women don’t know about heart disease — but need to.
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A former professional tennis player and NCAA All-Southeastern Conference student athlete, Elizabeth Moorman was trying to conceive her second child when she began suffering from severe headaches, chronic pain, congestion and sinus infections so severe … Continue reading
The older I get, the more I realize I’m turning into my mother. She’s 75 to my 52, but we have more and more in common. We talk the same. We laugh the same. We tend to like the same books and the same movies. And of late, we have one more thing in comm… Continue reading
I recently attended a Milken Institute Future of Health Summit panel in Washington, D.C. called Race, Gender, and Work: The Economics of Healthy Aging. The experts’ insights whizzed across a range of topics from caregiving to investing and jobs, but th… Continue reading
(Editor’s note: This article is part of an editorial partnership between Next Avenue and the American Federation for Aging Research, a national nonprofit organization with a mission to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical research.) Oct… Continue reading
(Editor’s Note: This podcast is from The Not Old – Better show. ) If you haven’t checked out the National Institutes of Health’s Go4Life program, give it a try. It offers free resources to help older adults work out more, push themselves a little harde… Continue reading
(Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control — CDC — reported Thursday its estimate of the overall effectiveness of this season’s influenza vaccination is 47 percent. For people age 50 and older, the estimate is just 24 percent. Yet, the CDC continu… Continue reading
It seems everyone is looking for a bit of natural healing these days. Meditation apps are being downloaded faster than you can say (to quote a Seinfeld script) “Serenity now!” Yoga classes are full and mindfulness training is enjoying a warm embrace fr… Continue reading
Over 30 years ago, researchers and geriatricians identified an “elder orphan” (sometimes called a “solo ager”) as a person aging alone with little support. But when my Elder Orphan Facebook group targeting this population launched over 2 1/2 years ago,… Continue reading