Value Based Reimbursement rewards coordinated medical care that leads to better patient health.

On the basis of 40-year-old research, millions of people in their 40s and older take a low-dose (81-100 mg) aspirin tablet every day as a...

Every year, it comes on as inevitably as the holiday season from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. SAD is a very apt acronym for Seasonal...

At the beginning of this series, I mentioned in passing that some conditions with dementia-like symptoms are completely curable. Vitamin...

Of the nine forms of dementia I described in the previous post, at least eight are irreversible. (The one, partial, exception is Normal...

In the previous post , I wrote about what dementia isn’t, and how dementia differs from natural aging. Now let’s talk about what dementia...

More than 16 million Americans provided unpaid care worth almost $244 billion last year to family members and friends with Alzheimer’s...

in the decade before winning his first Screen Actors Guild Award, actor Rob Lowe was cast in a different role. “When I was in my...

According to the Family Caregiver Alliance there’s a 68 percent probability that a disability will keep people 65 or older from...

According to a 2002 National Institutes of Health study, false negative perceptions of aging can take an average of 7½ years off a...

By now, you’ve probably heard or read all you need to know about self-quarantining and social distancing – and then some. But one thing...

When George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law in 1990, one of its provisions required workplaces with more...

Humans have four different blood types – eight if you count Rh Positive and Negative. And according to a recent Swedish study, there are...

Of the nine forms of dementia I described in the previous post, at least eight are irreversible. (The one, partial, exception is Normal...

Long before the Coronavirus outbreak, thousands of people over 65 have been quarantining themselves – not from pandemic disease, but from...

Did you know that flossing your teeth can help you live an average of 6.3 years longer? That’s what Dr. Michael Roizen writes in his...

Medicare Part A covers hospice care for terminally ill patients “with a life expectancy of six months or less,” as determined by the...

Doctors and hospitals, even the very best, are neither infallible nor omniscient. Moreover, since they see you only from time to time,...

Stereotypes – including those held by economists and retirement analysts ­–­ are just plain wrong, it turns out. Seniors are not spending...

In the previous post , I wrote about what dementia isn’t, and how dementia differs from natural aging. Now let’s talk about what dementia...