Mobility News Archive

6/14/2015 - Message to retirees: sit less, live better and longer
6/12/2015 - How to Support Aging Relatives
6/9/2015 - Justice Department Takes Down Barriers in Retirement Homes
6/7/2015 - A Group Portrait of New York’s ‘Oldest Old’
6/2/2015 - Mush No More: Retirement Home Food Gets Fresh And Local
5/27/2015 - Why Regular Retirement Saving Can Improve Your Health
5/26/2015 - For big data to help patients, sharing health information is key, experts say
5/20/2015 - When it comes to prevention, diet and exercise are key
5/15/2015 - Senior housing transitions can lead to stigma and isolation
5/13/2015 - People who use canes may limit themselves for fear of falling
5/13/2015 - Elderly living alone can be monitored by new sound system technology
5/12/2015 - High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents
5/12/2015 - Men who exercise may delay age-related high cholesterol
5/11/2015 - For an Aging Brain, Looking for Ways to Keep Memory Sharp
5/5/2015 - High-Tech Sensors Help Kids Keep Eye on Aging Parents
4/27/2015 - Drop-In Chefs Help Seniors Stay In Their Own Homes
4/20/2015 - How Baby Boomers Are Creating Their Own Retirement Communities
4/16/20915 - Student Inventors Tackle Elder Mobility Hurdles
4/15/2015 - The Right Dose of Exercise for a Longer Life
4/7/2015 - Living at home with dementia
3/31/2015 - What Have We Learned From 30 Years of 'Aging in Place'?
3/30/2015 - Why Some Seniors Are Upsizing in Retirement
3/25/2015 - How Exercise May Aid Cancer Treatment
3/15/2015 - Dementia patients may one day get assistance from robot helpers
3/13/2015 - Falls may be tied to irregular heartbeat
3/11/2015 - Training the Mind to Ward Off Falls
3/11/2015 - Two Generations, Retired and Together
3/11/2015 - The Rub: Remodel or Move?
3/9/2015 - The Far-Reaching Effects of a Fall
3/6/2015 - Retirement in a Community. But Which One?
3/4/2015 - One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t
2/9/2015 - Fully Equipped Village Allows Dementia Patients To Lead Normal, Independent Lives
1/30/2015 - Senior tech helps baby boomers come of digital age
1/23/2015 - The Best Time of Day to Exercise to Lose Weight
1/21/2015 - Robot caregivers aim to improve seniors' quality of life
1/21/2015 - Aging research: Blood to blood
1/21/2015 - Sitting will kill you, even if you exercise
1/20/2015 - AAA invests $12 million in study of older drivers’ needs
1/19/2015 - It Doesn’t Matter How Much You Exercise If You Also Do This
1/7/2015 - How Exercise Keeps Us Young
12/15/2014 - The Green House Effect: Homes for the Elderly to Thrive
12/15/2014 - When Grandma's House Is Home: The Rise Of Grandfamilies
12/12/2014 - Aging in Place: An Intergenerational Priority
12/9/2014 - Unmet Needs Continue to Pile Up
12/5/2014 - Older women who exercise outdoors more likely to stick with it
12/3/2014 - Run to Stay Young
12/1/2014 - Broken Hips: Preventing A Fall Can Save Your Life
11/28/2014 - Retirees Turn to Virtual Villages for Mutual Support
11/7/2014 - Wanted: Aging-In-Place Entrepreneurs And Staffers
11/6/2014 - Just taking breaks from being sedentary may benefit older adults
11/2/2014 - Bracing for the Falls of an Aging Nation
10/22/2014 - Extra-depth shoes may help alleviate foot pain for older people
10/22/2014 - Center on Longevity hosts design challenge focusing on elderly mobility
10/16/2014 - Exercise Counteracts Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's
10/15/2014 - 9 Home Improvements for Your Aging Parents
10/14/2014 - How Exercise Can Boost Young Brains
10/9/2014 - How to care for your aging parents from a distance
9/23/2014 - Exercise and your brain
9/17/2014 - Sit Less, Live Longer?
9/15/2014 - Teen Invents Sensor to Help Alzheimer's Patients
9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look
9/12/2104 - Elderly New Yorkers, Here for the Duration
9/11/2014 - Scientists Find Fruit Fly Gene That May Delay Aging
9/3/2014 - Is Aging In Place A Pipe Dream?
9/2/2014 - Childhood Diet Habits Set in Infancy, Studies Suggest
9/2/2014 - The Next Housing Crisis: Aging Americans' Homes
9/2/2014 - U.S. unprepared for housing needs of aging population
9/1/2014 - Of Little Help to Older Knees
8/31/2014 - How Will Millennials Face Parents' Aging? With Wearable Tech And Human Touch
8/26/2014 - Battle of the Sexes: Caring for an Aging Parent
8/25/2014 - Sensors let Alzheimer's patients stay at home, safely
8/21/2014 - For older women, working out may keep heart rates regular
8/15/2014 - What Technology Product Would Be the Biggest Help to Older People?
8/4/2014 - Who’s Moving In Now?
8/4/2014 - Picking a Nursing Home Shouldn’t Be Trial and Error
7/23/2014 - Seniors Share Homes for Cost Saving, Companionship
7/13/2014 - Retirement saving makes one wealthy, healthy
7/10/2014 - More Americans are aging in place. Can towns and cities adapt?
7/9/2014 - Retirement career: Managing affairs for older adults
7/8/2014 - It’s Lack of Exercise—Not Calories—That Make Us Fat, Study Says
7/8/2014 - Using M.C.s and M.D.s to Promote Healthy Eating for Youths
7/8/2014 - Will This Tech Tool Help Manage Older People's Health? Ask Dad
7/7/2014 - Time to downsize? Not for baby boomers
7/2/2014 - Can Exercise Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk?
6/26/2014 - Aging boomers push up household age
6/24/2014 - The state of senior health: It depends on your state
6/23/2014 - Keeping the aging brain active may also keep it sharp
6/23/2014 - Creating safer neighborhoods for healthier lifestyles
6/22/2014 - How to Keep Your Muscles Strong as You Age
6/20/2014 - Don’t give up trying to persuade an aging parent to move to better care
6/20/2014 - A Chiseled Bodybuilder, Frail Clients and a Fitness Story for the Ages
6/19/2014 - Hypoglycemia Rising in Older People With Diabetes
6/19/2014 - How Your State Rates In Terms Of Long-Term Care
6/15/2014 - A new generation of ‘Golden Girls’ embrace communal living as they get older
6/9/2014 - The financial costs of aging in place
6/2/2014 - New Technologies to Help Seniors Age in Place
5/30/2014 - Rethinking the Traditional Retirement Community
5/27/2014 - Living to 100?
5/27/2014 - Exercise program keeps older adults on their feet
5/27/2014 - When Older People Walk Now, They Stay Independent Later
5/22/2014 - Light exercise linked to less disability
5/22/2014 - Cities need to adapt as senior citizens’ housing needs change
5/16/2014 - When Shingles Is Just the Beginning
5/15/2014 - Interdependence: The Real Secret of Aging at Home
5/14/2014 - Sense of purpose 'adds years to life'
5/13/2014 - Retirement village life: A third way to face old age
5/13/2014 - When Children Become Caregivers
5/12/2014 - Alzheimer's: A 'memory suitcase’ helps dementia
5/12/2014 - 8 Simple Products Designed To Make Aging a Little Easier
5/8/2014 - Poor physical ability in middle age linked to higher risk of death
5/4/2014 - Swapping Young Blood for Old Reverses Aging
5/2/2014 - Choosing Care for an Aging Family Member
4/29/2014 - Why boomers are retiring to college
4/21/2014 - Who Will Watch You Fall? A Radar Detection Program for the Elderly
4/14/2014 - Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products for seniors
4/12/2014 - Is Your Home Age-Friendly?
4/8/2014 - Easing the burden of long-term medical demands for family caregivers
4/8/2014 - It takes villages: Boomers' new retirement communities
4/7/2014 - Young adults who stay fit and healthy may avoid cognitive issues in middle age
4/2/2014 - Run When You're 25 For A Sharper Brain When You're 45
3/28/2014 - Having ‘the other talk’ with your kids — not storks, but aging
3/25/2014 - Thinking Of Retiring? Consider Your Health
3/21/2014 - Just Don’t Call Them Hearing Aids
3/20/2014 - Designing a better way to cope with Alzheimer’s
3/19/2014 - New Tech Tools Promise to Make Caregiving Easier
3/19/2014 - One Sure Way To Tell If Your Aging Parent Shouldn't Be Driving
3/18/2014 - Robots to Aid Walking Offer New Tool to Aging, Disabled
3/13/2014 - Emergency Rooms Are No Place for the Elderly
3/12/2014 - The Risk of High-Protein Diets
3/10/2014 - The Monitored Man
3/7/2014 - ‘Aging-in-place’ features for the home gain higher profile as baby boomers get older
2/25/2014 - Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade
2/22/2014 - Car crash deaths fall among elderly drivers
2/21/2014 - Should Obesity Be a ‘Disease’?
2/20/2014 - Aging drivers crash less often than earlier generations
2/20/2014 - Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’s or Dementia
2/19/2014 - Sit More, And You're More Likely To Be Disabled After Age 60
2/19/2014 - 'Bluish' Light May Help Alzheimer's Patients Find Bearings
2/19/2014 - Weight Gain and Older Women
2/18/2014 - Aging well exercise, mental stimulation, social activity
2/17/2014 - Caring for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver
2/13/2014 - Long-Term-Care Insurance Priced by Gender
2/6/2014 - Through a growing number of senior villages, aging in place becomes easier
1/31/2014 - More elderly get care from families than paid workers
1/23/2014 - Students Devise Products for Adults With Dementia
1/20/2014 - High-tech upgrades may let boomers live independently in their own homes longer
1/7/2014 - Racism May Speed Cellular Aging In African American Men
12/13/2013 - An Alternative to Giving Up the Car Keys
12/11/2013 - Exercise as Potent Medicine
12/10/2013 - Exercise Reduces Men's Risk Of Dementia And Chronic Disease, Study Shows
12/9/2013 - The Geography Of Aging: Why Millennials Are Headed To The Suburbs
12/9/2013 - When it’s better to rent a home in retirement
12/5/2013 - Caregiving goes digital - and lets Boomers age in place
11/27/2013 - Boomers Need to Talk About Long-Term Care
11/25/2013 - Estrogen Won't Make Women Sharper After Menopause, Study Finds
11/21/2013 - Signs of Aging, Even in the Embryo
11/20/2013 - Dementia Patients Still Getting Dangerous Antipsychotic Drugs In Nursing Homes
11/19/2013 - Federal cuts hit seniors who want to live at home
11/12/2013 - Experts Reshape Treatment Guide For Cholesterol
11/6/2013 - 6 tips for averting America's looming long-term care crisis
10/17/2013 - Elderly Will Need Help as They Age at Home
10/10/2013 - GPS for Wandering Dog-Walker Shows Dementia Challenge
9/29/2013 - Seniors behind the wheel: Few kids have the talk
9/23/2013 - From Athletes to the Elderly: The Science of Trips and Falls
9/20/2013 - Soliciting young minds to help older adults
9/18/2013 - TIME Talks to Google CEO Larry Page About Its New Venture to Extend Human Life
9/18/2013 - Daughters (Still) Are the Caregivers
9/17/2013 - Relocate Your Parents, or Get Them a Robot?
9/17/2013 - Recommendation No. 1 for a Secure Retirement: "Age in Place"
9/12/2013 - Lessons from a good death
9/10/2013 - Getting While the Getting Is Good
9/9/2013 - Choices Give New Meaning to ‘Home, Sweet Home’
9/7/2013 - For baby boomers, staying fit past 50 is not a gray area
9/2/2013 - Life Expectancy Grows for Women Age 50 and Up
8/28/2013 - Top 10 U.S. Cities for Successful Aging
8/28/2013 - Study Finds Seniors Are Living Longer, Healthier Lives
8/23/2013 - The best place for you to retire
8/23/2013 - Weighing the Evidence: Studies Collide over How Aging Impacts Obesity Risk
8/14/2013 - Virtual adviser helps older Latino adults get more exercise, researcher says
8/10/2013 - Standing orders
8/9/2013 - There's No Place Like Home: Seniors Hold on to Urban Independence Into Old Age
8/7/2013 - CDC: Childhood obesity rates falling in many states
7/23/2013 - At Too Many Hospitals, a Revolving Door
7/22/2013 - Study: 'Anti-Aging' Antioxidant Actually Seems to Undo Effects of Exercise
7/22/2013 - Searching for Meaningful Markers of Aging
7/19/2013 - The Rise of Virtual Retirement Villages
7/11/2013 - Discovery that cancer may protect against Alzheimer's could lead to new treatments
7/10/2013 - A blood test to predict aging?
7/8/2013 - Are We Underestimating How Much Help Aging Parents Need At Home?
7/8/2013 - Fixing up seniors' homes to help them age in place
7/5/2013 - Retiring Baby Boomers Create Housing Boomtowns
7/3/2013 - Older working women may be healthier as a result
7/1/2013 - Hanging up the keys is tough decision for seniors
6/27/2013 - Virtual skin reveals secrets of aging
6/27/2013 - Scientists discern signatures of old versus young stem cells
6/25/2013 - Navratilova and others discuss staying fit and healthy at age 20 vs. age 60
6/25/2013 - New ways to help seniors deal with pain and depression
6/24/2013 - Depression May Increase The Risk Of Dementia Later On
6/20/2013 - The link between circadian rhythms and aging
6/20/2013 - Japan's robot industry for elderly encouraged by government
6/20/2013 - Two-fifths of U.S. adults care for sick, elderly relatives
6/19/2013 - Aging gracefully: Germans grow gray together
6/17/2013 - Why Men Die Younger Than Women: The 'Guys Are Fragile' Thesis
6/13/2013 - Elderly Americans Living With Children Are More Unhappy
6/12/2013 - Short walks 'could cut diabetes risk in older people'
6/12/2013 - Retirement, illness: Which causes which?
6/11/2013 - Retirement Will Kill You
6/11/2013 - Buck Institute study shows anti-aging drug improves function of heart in mice
6/10/2013 - Study links vegetarian diets and longevity
6/7/2013 - Grow fresh cartilage from adult stem cells
6/7/2013 - Fine Print and Red Tape in Long-Term Care Policies
6/7/2013 - The Future of Home Sweet Home (Part I): Housing
6/5/2013 - There's proof: Sunscreen reduces skin aging
6/3/2013 - The Home Care Revolution: Robots and Eldercare’s Future
5/31/2013 - Trapped in the Hospital Bed
5/31/2013 - The Family Caregiver Turns Pro
5/30/2013 - Joblessness Shortens Lifespan of Least Educated White Women, Research Says
5/30/2013 - Aging Chinese Face a Bleak Picture
5/29/2013 - Looking to the Past in Caring for Aging Americans in the Future
5/29/2013 - Parent lifespan tied to children’s cancer risk
5/29/2013 - Japan’s longevity secret: Social ties
5/24/2013 - Tackling New Tech In The Golden Years
5/22/2013 - A Benefit of Aging: Flu Protection
5/22/2013 - Boomer Housemates Have More Fun
5/20/2013 - The Walking Alive
5/20/2013 - Growing Old Alone?
5/19/2013 - Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
5/16/2013 - Stem Cell Milestone Revives Intense Ethical Debate
5/15/2013 - Biological clue to why women live longer than men
5/13/2013 - New fitness centers cater to aging baby boomers
5/13/2013 - Discovery reverses aging of mouse hearts—could it work in humans, too?
5/11/2013 - Rise in obesity poses 'dementia time bomb'
5/8/2013 - High Blood Sugar May Add to Alzheimer's Risk
5/6/2013 - Low-Risk Skin Cancers Often Treated Too Aggressively in Elderly, Study Finds
5/6/2013 - Health concerns top list of retirement worries in U.S.
5/1/2013 - Yoga After 50
4/27/2013 - Today’s Dream House May Not Be Tomorrow’s
4/26/2013 - Diabetes Advice for the Elderly: Relax
4/25/2013 - To cut health bills, boomers need 20-somethings
4/22/2013 - Researchers: Standing at your desk could have health benefits
4/21/2013 - Change diet, exercise habits at same time for best results, study says
4/18/2013 - Walking While Old: Seniors Face Greatest Death Risk
4/17/2013 - Hospital Dangers for Patients With Parkinson’s
4/15/2013 - Worries Multiplied for Elderly
4/15/2013 - For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap
4/15/2013 - How Exercise And Other Activities Beat Back Dementia
4/11/2013 - Stress And Aging: 5 Ways Chronic Stress Can Affect The Aging Process
4/8/2013 - Fitness after 65 is no one-size-fits-all endeavor
3/28/2013 - A Volunteer Army of Caregivers
3/25/2013 - What Causes Hearing Loss?
3/21/2013 - Moving Advice for Empty Nesters
3/18/2013 - Ageing well: Can dance and art keep the mind and body young?
3/18/2013 - The Unobstructed Home
3/13/2013 - For Modern Retirees, There’s No Place Like Home
3/12/2013 - A Little of This, a Little of That for Older Exercisers
3/12/2013 - In Retiree Housing, Talking About Multigenerations
3/12/2013 - Too Many Colonoscopies in the Elderly
3/9/2013 - Kings Point, a Magic Kingdom for the Retirement Set
3/7/2013 - Scientists shed light on how resveratrol works
3/5/2013 - New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan
3/5/2013 - Fear of Falling
3/3/2013 - Aging parents worry about adult children with disabilities
3/1/2013 - Why Can’t I Live With People Like Me?
2/28/2013 - For the Elderly, Medical Procedures to Avoid
2/25/2013 - Health effects of retirement have proved hard for researchers to assess
2/15/2013 - What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Aging: An Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker's Conversation-Starter on Women and Aging
2/15/2013 - Sun City It’s Not
2/5/2013 - In Blended Families, Responsibility Blurs
2/4/2013 - Therapy Plateau No Longer Ends Coverage
2/2/2013 - Weighing the End of Life
1/30/2013 - Myths of Weight Loss Are Plentiful, Researcher Says
1/30/2013 - Rogue DNA busts out of aging cell ‘prison’
1/25/2013 - Retirement Homes As College Campuses?
1/24/2013 - Village People: The Retirement Community That Isn't
1/23/2013 - The Last Calendar
1/21/2013 - Light-up tumors show aging in real-time
1/15/2013 - Study: More to Meal Delivery Than Food
1/14/2013 - As Hepatitis C Sneaks Up On Baby Boomers, Treatment Options Grow
1/8/2013 - Workshops Help Families Grappling With Alzheimer's Home Care
1/8/2013 - Who Should Receive Organ Transplants?
1/3/2013 - Why Am I Shrinking?
12/29/2012 - How Can Astronauts In Space Contribute To Aging Research?
12/24/2012 - Staying Independent in Old Age, With a Little Help
12/20/2012 - Scientists in Hong Kong map initial anti-aging formula
12/18/2012 - Astronaut study holds promise for the elderly here on Earth
12/19/2012 - Older People Become What They Think, Study Shows
12/17/2012 - New Car Features May Keep Older Drivers Out Of The Big Yellow Taxi
12/14/2012 - New Burden of Disease study shows world’s people living longer but with more disability
12/14/2012 - Life Expectancy Rises Around the World, Study Finds
12/12/2012 - Preventing a tragedy for seniors at the wheel
12/10/2012 - Frailty is a medical condition, not an inevitable result of aging
12/10/2012 - Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities
12/10/2012 - Training Needed for Home Care Is Lacking
12/3/2012 - Forced to Choose: Exploring Other Options
12/1/2012 - Mortgage Catch Pushes Widows Into Foreclosure
12/1/2012 - Taking a Stand for Office Ergonomics
11/29/2012 - Under One Roof, Building for Extended Families
11/29/2012 - How We Can Make Older Bodies Young Again
11/21/2012 - Positive Outlook Helps Seniors Heal
11/19/2012 - Can You Move It And Work It On A Treadmill Desk?
11/13/2012 - Visible signs of aging signaled increased risk of heart disease, study finds
10/24/2012 - U.S. elderly, middle-aged see higher obesity rates: poll
10/24/2012 - The Island Where People Forget to Die
10/17/2012 - Carbs, Sugar Linked With Cognitive Impairment Risk In Elderly: Study
10/17/2012 - Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit.

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