Healthy Seniors Features
- For Your Health, Assert Yourself
Taking a more active role can help older people get the care they need. Here's how to get started.
- Now, Foster Care for Displaced Pets
When illness or disaster strikes, surrogates tend to the family dog or cat, allowing owners to recover.
- Older Doctors Learn New Tricks
At this innovative clinic for the poor, retired physicians treat patients who otherwise might not get care.
- End of the Line
Many nursing homes are working to improve their residents' living conditions. Sometimes it even saves them money.
- No Cure-All for Nursing Homes
After years of ambivalence, alarms are sounding over the sorry state of our nation's nursing homes. An aging population demands better alternatives.
- Can Good Sex Keep You Young?
Pop docs say there's a connection between sexual activity, looking younger, and living longer. Does frequent sex contribute to good health, or does good health make frequent sex possible?
- Gardening for Health
Can the simple pleasure of gazing on a landscape improve your health? Perhaps. A growing number of experts say that nature may hold a key to a long, healthy life.
- Older Drivers: The Car Key Decision
As the number of older drivers increases as the population ages, the question arises more often: When should car keys be taken away to ensure the safety of older drivers -- and others on the road?
- How to Live to Be 120.
Give lab rats a low-cal, high-nutrient diet, and they live longer -- and healthier. Could this work for humans, too?
- Acting Your Age
How the theater is helping a group of active seniors live fuller lives.
- Fitness for the Long Term
You don't have to be a Senior Olympian or a genetically souped-up centenarian to reap the rewards of exercise and good nutrition. It is never too soon, or too late to start getting in shape.
- Live Long, Live Well
More people than ever before are living to the ripe age of 100 -- many of them in fine health.
- Let the Senior Games Begin
One sign of the growing presence of vigorous older people is the National Senior Games Association, a not-for-profit entity that promotes health and fitness and coordinates state Senior Games and Senior Olympics organizations.
- Pumping Iron to Stay Young?
This grandmother insists that strength training has kept her fit and helped her stay younger. She may be on to something.
- Know Your Genetic Risk
Knowing your family's health history can help you avoid health problems yourself.
- Family Health History
Thinking about compiling a family health history? Get more information here.
- Making the Last Move.
To stay in my own home or move to a retirement community? A look at the all important decision facing many seniors.
- Making the Last Move
Moving one last time as an older adult.
- Choosing to Live at Home
You don't need to stay in a nursing home to get good care.
- Reaching Out to Nursing Home Residents.
Keep in contact with your loved one in a nursing home far away.
- Are Kids Good for Your Health?
For a group of residents at a home for the aged, having children around helps boost their immune system.
- The Eden Alternative in Action
Recovering from depression thru the Eden Alternative
- The Eden Alternative in Action.
The Eden Alternative in Action
- Reaching Out to Nursing Home Residents
If you want to improve life for a loved one in a nursing home far away, here are some ideas.
- Your Hearing: Are You Losing It?
Certain factors point to a possible loss of hearing.
- 'Just Say No' Isn't Enough
Researchers say parents may have far more influence than they think on whether your kids try drugs.
- No Trials for the Aging
Older patients are often eager to determine the effectiveness of drugs by trying experimental therapies. So why are so many of them being left out of clinical studies?
- Silent Symptoms
You'd certainly know if you were having a heart attack, wouldn't you? After all, you couldn't possibly miss symptoms as unmistakable as crushing chest pain or extreme shortness of breath.
- When You Need to Go, Go, Go
The discomfort and inconvenience associated with overactive bladder usually can be reduced.
- Beyond Depression
Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness among adults.
- Who Gets the Last Say?
It's also a complicated process. Everything from the patient's age, to the chances of surviving aggressive treatment, to his or her wishes for end-of-life care must be taken into account.
- Having a Happy Retirement
When Saeed Amanullah retired seven years ago, he thought he had his life all figured out. Like many people hitting the retirement trail, he planned to do some consulting work and to go abroad to see the world.
- Never Too Late to Lose Weight
A recent study -- the largest yet on obesity and mortality -- has found that the more overweight you are, the higher your risk of death.
- Battling Nature (Part 2): Human Potential
This is the second in a three-part series on what scientific discoveries are revealing about the aging process and how the findings will change the way people age.
- Battling Nature (Part 1): Genetic Possibilities
Learn more about the field of genetics and the future possibility of targeting certain genes to slow the aging process.
- Eating Well, Aging Well
Here are a few essential components of a good diet for older people.
- Getting Older, Feeling Better
Regular exercise is particularly important for older adults, for a variety of health reasons. Read here for more information.
- Ginkgo Biloba: The Fountain of Youth?
Ginkgo biloba has become one of the most popular dietary supplements in the United States. This article reviews the potential benefits of this herb, and discusses how to determine whether it is a useful addition to your own diet.
- Supplements to Boost Your Health
Learn about the 5 nutritional supplements that benefit many older adults.
- Battling Nature (Part 3): Soldiers in the Field
This is the last in a series on what scientific discoveries are revealing about the aging process and how the findings will change the way people age.