Health

Remarkably, no matter how much we report on the benefits of walking for both physical and cognitive health, new research continues to be published that enhances and strengthens our understanding of the value of walking for healthier aging. Whether it’s reducing your mortality risk, maintaining your cardiovascular health, or lifting…

With so many hearing aid options and devices now available, it’s hard to imagine that anyone who has hearing difficulties has not yet found help. However, that would assume that you know you have hearing problems, have the money to purchase hearing aids, and/or are desirous to do something about…

With Father’s Day around the corner, and Memorial Day behind us, many may have visions of relaxing in the hammock or sitting on the beach and diving into some new reads. There are loads of reading lists just out for your summer reading pleasure, some with breezy fiction titles, others…

Maybe you wonder why agebuzz spends so much time focused on balance and fall prevention. Well, as we’ve previously pointed out, around the world falls are the primary cause of accidental deaths and now we have new data reporting that fatal falls more than doubled among US older adults, from…

For most of us, maintaining and even strengthening our memory as we get older becomes almost an obsession. Forgetting a name or an event becomes a moment of panic. Not recognizing someone you’ve previously met causes a crisis of confidence in your brain.  Wondering about what day of the week…

It’s a perennial problem that seems to only get worse with aging. Constipation is considered the most frequent gastrointestinal complaint, and while older adults are not the only ones who suffer, they are afflicted with more frequency. About 16% of adults have chronic constipation, but for adults aged 60 and…