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Religious involvement may improve cognitive health
People over 50 who attend religious services and pray privately may notice better memory performance, a new study from the University of Michigan found. According to the study’s findings, frequent religious service attendance and private prayer was linked to stronger cognitive health among blacks, Hispanics and whites.
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Do Older People Have a Different Smell?
Even scientists who study scent are divided.
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‘Tickle’ therapy could help slow ageing
'Tickling' the ear with a small electrical current appears to rebalance the autonomic nervous system for over-55s, potentially slowing down one of the effects of ageing, according to new research.
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Isolated And Struggling, Many Seniors Are Turning To Suicide
The golden years are thought to be a well-earned, carefree time in life. But adults 65 and older now account for almost 1 in 5 suicides in America.
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Google pays $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination claims
The lead plaintiff interviewed with Google four times but never got a job.
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96-Year-Old Man Runs 42-Minute 5K to Break World Record for His Age Group
Virginia native Roy Englert shaved nearly eight minutes off the previous mark at the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships.
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On average, older adults spend over half their waking hours alone
Americans 60 and older spend about seven waking hours a day alone. This rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own.
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Robots for the elderly must be designed with care and respect
Many countries around the world have ageing populations and a growing prevalence of dementia. Japan, in particular, is a “super-ageing” society, with a population getting older faster than anywhere else in the world due to long life expectancy and low birth rates.
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Japan plans new driver's license system for elderly as accidents surge
In the wake of a slew of fatal accidents involving elderly drivers, the government plans to create a new driver's license system that limits senior citizen
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Deaths from falls among older Americans are on the rise
CHICAGO (AP) — New research shows fatal falls have nearly tripled in older Americans in recent years, rising to more than 25,000 deaths yearly.
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New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It
Digital recruiting is leaving more of a forensic trail in discrimination cases. But a wave of litigation is running up against higher legal hurdles.
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The Elderly Are Getting Complex Surgeries. Often It Doesn’t End Well.
Complication rates are high among the oldest patients. Now a surgeons’ group will propose standards for hospitals operating on the elderly.
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MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children
Scott Chacon is CEO of the online language learning company Chatterbug.
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‘Longevity gene’ responsible for more efficient DNA repair
Explorers have dreamt for centuries of a Fountain of Youth, with healing waters that rejuvenate the old and extend life indefinitely. Researchers at the University of Rochester, however, have uncovered more evidence that the key to longevity resides instead in a gene. In a new paper published in the journal Cell, the researchers—including Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, professors of biology; Dirk Bohmann, professor of biomedical genetics; and their team of students and postdoctoral
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Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out?
A slowing rate of improvement hints at a looming asymptote, at least on a population-wide basis
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Falling for phone scams could be an early sign of dementia, study says
The woman lives alone, but she's rarely lonely. Friends stop by most mornings, and a niece looks in weekly. Still, most of her afternoons and evenings are spent sitting in her chair, looking at the clouds and sky through a picture window. The caller sounded nice. "Good afternoon," he said in a cheery voice, asking whether he could use her first name. She couldn't remember entering the sweepstakes, but he assured her that she had and that it didn't matter: What matters, he said, is that she'd won.
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Stanford team develops brain-rejuvenating antibodies that let old mice think like youngsters
In a stunning piece of research, Stanford neuroscientists have hunted down a single gene that encodes a protein responsible for age-related cognitive losses, targeted it with special blocking antibodies, and shown in mice that these antibodies can rejuvenate old brains to work as well as young ones.
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Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds
The treatment is aimed at “working memory,” the ability to hold information in mind for a matter of seconds. It’s crucial for things like taking medications, paying bills, buying groceries or planning.
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Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet
Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.
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More than 1m childless people over 65 are 'dangerously unsupported'
Older people without children at greater risk of isolation, poor health and inability to access formal care – report
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