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Aged care providers facing pitfalls with staff on social media - Australian Ageing Agenda
The legal issues arising from staff using social media to bully each other or reveal details of residents and families is increasingly confronting aged care managers, an industry lawyer says.
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When did you notice you were aging?
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An Attempt to Keep the Dying Gottschee Culture Very Much Alive
Inspired by a trip to Slovenia with her grandmother, one New Yorker took it upon herself to chronicle the story of a lost piece of European history. By Daniel A. Gross.
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What does rosemary do to your brain?
In folk medicine, rosemary has been associated for centuries with having a good memory.
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What's the best way to fight memory loss?
We'd all like to about keep our brains as sharp as possible as we age. But what are the best ways to do this?
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Aging And Athletic Performance
I remember the moment while watching TV when I realized that if I were riding in the Tour de France, at age 42 I’d be the oldest person in the race.
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Brainy Quotes About Aging
Share the best age quotes collection with funny and wise quotes by famous authors on age, aging, youth, getting old, being young, middle age and more.
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UI Fail: How Our User interfaces Help to Ruin Lives
A couple of months ago, in Seeking Anecdotes Regarding “Older” Persons’ Use of Web Services, I asked for stories and comments regarding experiences that older users have had with modern Web systems, with an emphasis on possible problems and frustrations. I purposely did not define “older...”
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Blocking brain protein could stop memory loss caused by ageing
Stopping a protein that builds up with age has been shown to aid memory and help mouse brains remain young. If true in humans, a drug could halt memory loss.
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Where the health care money is, in charts
Here are two fascinating charts from the recent NBER working paper by Mariacristina De Nardi and colleagues. Both are average, per person total health care spending by type of service, the first by a
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The Man Who Saw America
Looking back with Robert Frank, the most influential photographer alive.
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A World Apart: 2 Women with Birthdates in 1800s Still Alive
When Susannah Mushatt Jones and Emma Morano were born in 1899, there was not yet world war or penicillin, and electricity was still considered a marvel. The women are believed to be the last two in the world with birthdates in the 1800s.
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Will Baby Boomers Change the Meaning of Retirement?
“Now that we’re living so much longer, we do not know what we will be doing with all that time.”
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The animals and plants that can live forever
Most animals eventually get old and die. But a few lucky species don't seem to feel the weight of time, and just keep going and going
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Buster Keaton’s Cure
By Charlie Fox.
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Anti-ageing pill pushed as bona fide drug
Doctors and scientists want drug regulators and research funding agencies to consider medicines that delay ageing-related disease as legitimate drugs. Such treatments have a physiological basis, researchers say, and could extend a person’s healthy years by slowing down the processes that underlie common diseases of ageing — making them worthy of government approval. On 24 June, researchers will meet with regulators from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make the case for a clinical...
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If humans lived 10 years on average instead of 80, how would society be different?
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On Longer Lives and Longer Deaths
America has many open secrets. The nursing home is one of them. We try not to think too hard or too long about its residents or its low-wage staff. We’ll confront its smell, its humiliations, its totality, its bleakness, only once we need it. Or maybe we never will...
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If you could choose one person on earth to stop aging, who would you pick?
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When 80 became the new 40 | Technologist
Life spans in the developed world have doubled over the past two centuries – and each decade we are adding two to three more years. To take the best of this extra time, scientists are working hard to decipher the code of aging.
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