All Articles on Aging

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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.
• 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.
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  Alzheimer’s and dementia: Things are looking up

  The evidence to support a healthy-lifestyle approach to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia is growing. While there’s no “magic pill” to prevent such conditions, we can do several things to prevent or delay dementia.
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  5 ways to prevent or delay dementia

  If you ask doctors what disease their patients fear most, they’ll tell you: dementia. Growing old itself is not so scary to many people. But the idea of living in a demented state can paralyze people with worry or tempt them to pursue preventive treatments based on false hope.