For anyone with an older parent, hard conversations may be in your future: about money, housing options, caregiving responsibilities and even about relationships. These conversations are difficult enough when everyone agrees. But they can become heated and fraught with tension if there’s disagreement or if your parent has diminished decision-making…

No matter how committed you are to staying healthy as you age, no one is perfect. So we hope we can compensate for our vices in other ways to maintain our health. For example, an estimated ⅔ of us take dietary supplements. We spend $35 billion/year on these pills and…

Whether it’s for environmental reasons or economic reasons, many of us have considered whether we need to keep buying new clothing- or whether we have enough. While a sale or the new fashion season can entice us to buy something new, the reality is that for many, our closets are…

There’s nothing like a night of heavy drinking to remind you that you’re not as young as you used to be. As we’ve previously profiled in agebuzz, drinking as an older adult can cause much more impact on your body and brain than it did when you were younger. In…

It’s been said that, “Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live.” Those who have cancer are not only pushing to deal with the physical consequences of the disease but also with the attitudes and platitudes of others who may…

By now you know there’s a strong connection between what happens in the body and what goes on in the mind. Exercise, yoga and even healthy eating can all give you a mood uplift, improve your brain health or relieve stress. And now there’s new research that shows you can…