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Top 10 Superfoods for Your Brain   We all know that eating a healthy diet is essential for our physical health. It’s equally important for our brain’s health. The brain is a complex and powerful organic machine that requires nutrients to function properly, just like your heart, lungs, eyes or muscles.   The brain controls… Continue reading Top 10 Superfoods for Your Brain

Amyloid beta plaques are gooey globs that clump together, stick to neurons inside the brain and kill them off, outright. The slow but steady accumulation of these plaques leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Tau protein tangles aid them by cutting off the brain’s supply lines, as the plaques march across white and gray matter, taking out… Continue reading The First Drug Breakthrough in the Race to Cure Alzheimer’s By 2025

(WXYZ) – One hundred eighty three older adults were recruited for this study at the Massachusetts General Hospital.   They were first given medical assessments and brain imagining to evaluate their cognitive functioning.Participants then took part in a four-point test that included smelling 10 different common odors like lemon, mint and strawberry.   Those who… Continue reading Boston researchers suggest your sense of smell could be used to predict your risk of Alzheimer’s

  Paula Span – New York Times THE NEW OLD AGE DEC. 30, 2016   The circle shrinks. As the years pass, older people attend too many funerals. Friendships that sustained them for decades lapse when companions and confidants retire or move away or grow ill.   These days Sylvia Frank, who moved into an… Continue reading Loneliness Can Be Deadly for Elders; Friends Are the Antidote

BY CLAUDIA BUCKcbuck@sacbee.com Put down the fork. Step away from the buffet table.   UC Davis nutrition expert Liz Applegate wants us to think about exactly what we’re shoveling down our throats. Not just to lose weight but to protect our brains.   “Brain food is real and it really does matter,” said Applegate, an… Continue reading Brain food: What to eat – at any age – to fend off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

BY CLAUDIA BUCKcbuck@sacbee.com   Put down the fork. Step away from the buffet table.   UC Davis nutrition expert Liz Applegate wants us to think about exactly what we’re shoveling down our throats. Not just to lose weight but to protect our brains.   “Brain food is real and it really does matter,” said Applegate,… Continue reading Brain food: What to eat – at any age – to fend off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Rahmat Shoureshi – Crunch Network Contributor   Today’s 20-something tech wizards might not worry about the challenges of old age — but they should.   Seniors represent a huge untapped market for tech companies. While just 13 percent of America’s population is 65 or older today, that slice will jump to 19 percent by 2030.… Continue reading Wearables for elder care

 If you can’t care for your parents in your own home, you are not a bad son or daughter. Our parents get older and some of them — in fact, a majority of them — need help. Most elderly people eventually become dependent on others. This means they will require someone to be increasingly attentive to their… Continue reading Should you place your elderly parent in a senior home or assisted living?

The extreme efficacy of Yoga in leading a healthy and happy life is not hidden from people today. In fact, it is being practiced and pursued in an unprecedented manner as people have embraced it wholeheartedly. The recognition of 21st June as the ‘International Yoga Day’ bears testimony to this fact.   What makes yoga… Continue reading The Remarkable Effects of Yoga in Restoring Healthy Sleep and Better Quality of Life

Written by Kerry Mills Dementia is a symptom or set of symptoms. It is not an actual disease, but a term used to describe a group of brain disorders that causes a loss in cognitive abilities such as memory, language, abstract reasoning, and judgment, to name a few. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause… Continue reading Improving Dementia Care Requires a Change in Mindset