Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri this week raised concerns about dietary supplements that claim to protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and urged 15 major companies and retailers to explain why they sell dubious supplements. Read the full article at The New York Times.
Researchers showed that cells in the bodies of people who live in perceived bad areas age faster. Read the full article at UPI.
Benefits demonstrated in mice and yeast; three cycles of a similar diet given to humans. Read the full article at USC News.
The White House has announced it will hold its White House Conference on Aging(WHCOA) on July 13th. This event is held once every decade, as initially mandated by Congress in 1965. Fifty years in, what’s new? Read the full article at Huffington Post.
A five-year, international study into the genetic roots of the country’s sixth-leading killer is expanding. The TOMMORROW study, which is going on in about 50 locations in North America, Europe and Australia, tests a drug — one used to control diabetes — to see whether it could prevent, or at least delay, the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. […]
An expert panel writing this month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine urged office workers to take the danger seriously and get out of their chairs for at least two hours every work day. But what about people whose working days are over? It turns out that the oldest adults, including retirees, spend the most time […]
Supported by income from Social Security, pensions and investments, as well as an increasing number of paychecks from delaying retirement, older people not only weathered the economic downturn that began in 2007 but made significant gains, a New York Times analysis of government data has found. As a result, America’s middle class is graying. Read the […]
Who comes first, the investors or the person who manages their money? That question is crucial for any investor. But it poses a special challenge for retired firefighters, police officers, teachers and other employees who may not know that their retirement money is being held in private equity funds. Read the full article at The […]
Many older people start to require assistance with their daily tasks, and adult children often step in to provide this care to their aging parents. A recent Pew Research Center survey of adults in three rapidly aging countries, Germany, Italy and the United States, found that many respondents with at least one parent age 65 or […]
Over the next 35 years, the size of the population over age 65 is projected to nearly double, from 43 million to 84 million. The CDC calls the size and share of older adults in the U.S. population “unprecedented in our nation’s history.” Yet the preparation of the health care workforce to meet the needs […]
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