Aging

Untreated Depression, Response To Shingles Vaccine In Seniors Linked

Can individual's state of mind can effect how well a vaccine may work? Writing in Clinical Infectious Diseases, UCLA psychiatry professor Dr. Michael Irwin and colleagues say they have found a link between untreated depression in older adults and dec ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2013 - 2:19pm

Get Grandpa On Facebook- It May Give Him A Cognitive Boost

For older adults looking to sharpen their mental abilities, Facebook may be the way to go, according to preliminary psychology research which suggests that men and women older than 65 who learn to use Facebook could see a boost in cognitive function. Jane ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2013 - 7:00am

Older Adults Have Better Memory Retention When Distracted

Psychologists say they have compelling evidence that older adults can eliminate forgetfulness and perform as well as younger adults on memory tests.  They used a distraction learning strategy to help older adults overcome age-related forgetting and say it ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2013 - 7:23pm

Pessimists Live Longer And Healthier

Older people who don't expect a satisfying future may be more likely to live longer, healthier lives than those who see brighter days ahead, according to a paper in Psychology and Aging.  Scholars examined data collected from 1993 to 2003 for the nat ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2013 - 1:00pm

Chronic Disease (Or Lack) Helps Define The New Normal In Aging

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, say life expectancy changes have been so rapid since 1900 that " 72 is the new 30 "- by that, they mean primitive hunter gatherers had the same odds of dying a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2013 - 12:05pm

Seniors: Video Games Lead To Emotional Well-Being

New surveys find that older adults who play video games report higher levels of emotional well-being. Scholars asked 140 people aged 63 and older how often they played video games, if at all. The participants then took a series of psychological assessment ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2013 - 2:00pm

Regional Medicare Spending For Advanced Cancer Doesn't Impact Survival

Regional spending is not linked to differences in survival of patients with advanced cancer, according to an analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Cancer care ac ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 10:02am

Balance App: Alzheimer's Care Goes Digital

Alzheimer's research is always big news. The reason is simple: people are living longer and they also want to be living better. While progress in general health issues for seniors marches on, the brain remains trickier stuff. Instead of less Alzheimer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 2 2013 - 11:09am

Amyloid Proteins May Be Getting Too Much Blame In Alzheimer's

Amyloids are the quintessential bad boys of neurobiology. These clumps of misfolded proteins found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders muck up the seamless workings of the neurons responsible for mem ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 4:10pm

Alzheimer's Disease Breakthrough? Scientists Reverse Memory Loss In Animal Model Brain Cells

Researchers have taken a step forward in efforts to help people with memory loss tied to brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. Using sea snail nerve cells, the scientists reversed memory loss by determining when the cells were primed for lear ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2013 - 4:50pm