All Articles on Aging

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  Tips for healthy aging: Your 80s and beyond

  Part seven of our seven-part series.
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  News release: Anticholinergic drugs linked to risk for pneumonia in elderly

  Group Health study suggests higher risk with acute or chronic use.
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  Anticholinergic drugs linked to risk for pneumonia in elderly

  Group Health study suggests higher risk with acute or chronic use.
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  The Who was wrong: We should hope to get old

  Old age does not equal unhappiness, says Dr. Eric B. Larson in King’s Review, a magazine from University of Cambridge, UK.
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  High-dose vaccine may protect seniors better

  Thanks to a new flu vaccine being distributed this flu season, seniors are getting more protection against serious seasonal flu viruses.
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  Caring for someone with dementia? These tips may help.

  If you’re a caregiver for someone with dementia, you know how challenging your role can be. This is especially true with progressive conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, where deterioration of brain function can affect a person’s behavior.
• Aging with an edge: The ACT study advances genetics and brain science

  What if scientists could combine the latest in genetics and brain science with decades of rich data from research and clinical visits? That interdisciplinary cross-fertilization is just what’s happening with Adult Changes in Thought (ACT), a joint Group Health–University of Washington (UW) study funded by the National Institute on Aging. After decades of studying Group Health seniors to pinpoint risk factors for conditions including dementia, ACT researchers are now collaborating with new partners to learn even more.