Part 1: What dementia is not As of 2019, an estimated 57.4 million people worldwide were living with dementia. With population growth and...

The most obvious sign of a heart attack is intense chest pain, as if an elephant were sitting on your chest. It’s also the most prevalent...

When it comes to surgery for older adults, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that “In modern surgery, it’s a rare event to...

In a few cases, yes. But many, many more deaths are caused by the fear of the coronavirus. “Nearly everyone dying of COVID-19 has...

The way too many people think about DNR orders, it’s as if the initials stood for “Deny Needed Remedies” instead of “Do Not Resuscitate.”...

While only 7.3% of adults aged 18 to 44 have Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC), almost nine times as many 65 or older do (61.6%). And...

No one ever said that unpaid family caregivers have it easy. Some 34.2 million spend almost 26 hours a week helping with dressing and...

During the pandemic, the growth of telehealth has been, if you’ll pardon the pun, contagious. So much so that telemed, as it’s also...

It’s a smartphone with either FaceTime or Google Duo. By eliminating travel time to and from doctors’ offices, along with time-wasting...

Getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night is important for maintaining good health. The average American gets less than seven. Given...

Tens of millions of Americans have been diagnosed with a condition that’s painless, has no symptoms, and is detectable only from...

Bacteria are one-cell organisms – and they’re not brain cells. Yet, they’re smart enough to become “increasingly unique (i.e.,...

Not very well, according to Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, the Belgian mathematician who devised the Body Mass Index in 1832. Quetelet...

There’s an old rule of thumb about drinking eight glasses of water a day. Is that enough? Too little? Or too much? The U.S. National...

This past August, I wrote about how COVID workarounds like remote working, telemedicine, and online grocery shopping and other services...

The Lancet Commission report on dementia named factors that could prevent the onset of dementia or delay its progression. One of those –...

A 2020 report from the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care (UK) says that between now and 2050, the number of people living...

Throughout last year, thanks to rumors of vitamin D warding off coronavirus infection, many, many more Americans started taking it –...

A growing medical consensus says you don’t. No matter how old you are, it’s important to keep taking some tests – blood pressure check,...

COVID-19 notwithstanding, the number one cause of death in the United States is heart disease. And one of the leading causes of heart...