Your Brain on Gratitude

Mar 8, 2021 | Caregivers

It’s been a year. We’ve all had terrible things to face. It might be financial distress as our industry shuts down because of the pandemic. It might be the loss of a loved one to COVID-19. The missed holidays. The take-no-prisoners politics. The social...

Vascular Dementia—The Problem Most Don’t Know About

Mar 1, 2021 | Dementia

Everyone has heard of dementia. And everyone worries about dementia. At age 60, 10 percent of us will have dementia. By age 80, 40 percent of us will.Dementia is damage to the brain, just as heart disease is damage to the heart. The majority of elders who experience...

Create Your Own “Blue Zone” And Live To 100

Feb 15, 2021 | Health

Every so often, people will start to get excited about a small town where people routinely live to be 100. That town might be on the Japanese island of Okinawa, or the mountains of Sicily, or in a desert town 60 miles east of Los Angeles. These, and other places, have...

Managing Pain in Elders

Feb 14, 2021 | Medication

By Elizabeth Landsverk, MD Older adults are more likely to experience pain than the general population but they may be less likely to be treated for it. The most common reason that pain in elders is undertreated is that it is under-reported. Many elders consider pain...

Beware Of Internet Scams

Feb 8, 2021 | Caregivers, Legal Issues/Financial Abuse

Alas, grifters have always been with us. Just think of the saying, “If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you!” That saying has its roots in a con more than a century old: George Parker (1860-1936) became famous for “selling”...