Seniors

Stricken by Stroke? Where Do We Go From Here?

September 29, 2024 by Russell Youngberg - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Stroke is so common that all of us have made personal observations and are interested in an overview of restoration following the acute care of an insult to the brain, our ”command center.” This insult was caused by hemorrhage from a blood vessel, blockage of a blood vessel, or by lack of enough blood flow […]

5 Steps to Prevent Alzheimer´s

September 22, 2024 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 5 minutes

In the United States, there are around 6,200,000 people aged 65 and over with Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two thirds are women. This means that the disease is almost twice as common in women compared to men. But why? The first reason is that women tend to live longer than men. So more men die earlier […]

The Secret for a Better and Longer Life

May 12, 2024 by Bernell Baldwin - Reading Time: 14 minutes

Dinner is served. Grandmother Sally, alert and happy, is facing her first meal in some time in her son’s California ranch-style home. Her son Clyde is a comfortably fixed dairy cattleman who loves his wife Lela’s cooking a bit too much -– Uncle Clyde believes in eating generously. His trim mother Sally, daughter of a […]

Better Sleep Can Protect Against Dementia

March 31, 2024 by Andrée-Ann Baril and Matthew Pase - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive abilities, such as memory, that is significant enough to have an impact on a person’s daily activities. It can be caused by a number of different diseases, including Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form. Dementia is caused by a loss of neurons over a long period of […]

What is Causing Stress for Seniors?

July 24, 2022 by Martin Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

By the time you’ve reached the twilight of your life, you still face a very unique, yet very real set of stresses. The stress that elderly people face is much different from that of any other age group, and as such, many people younger than them don’t know how to help, because they simply can’t […]

How can we delay aging?

March 20, 2022 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

1875 – 1997, that is the lifetime of the oldest woman in recent times, Jeanne Calment from France. She lived 44,724 days or more than 122 years. At 100 she was still cycling. According to her statement, she didn’t do anything special to get that old. So it’s the genes after all? Aging research says […]