Age Happens: Causes of Memory Loss and Dementia, The
Strokes are the second leading cause of cognitive loss late in life. A person's language and memory system may be compromised by a major stroke, or by a series of small strokes that gradually diminish a person's cognitive capacity. The leading cause...
Age Happens: Healthy Lifestyle Can Slow Signs of Aging
A healthy lifestyle can help slow many of the physiological changes that are part of aging. People who age well eat right, exercise, and stay involved and active.
Age Happens: Assisted Living
Problems with declining health or increasing disability can make it difficult for the elderly to manage on their own. About 1 in 5 elderly people need help performing daily living activities. The Over 60 Health Center in East Oakland provides assist...
Age Happens: Chronic Conditions of Aging
In an ideal world, all of our diseases and problems would be compressed into the very last few years of life. But the reality is that people tend to get more chronic illnesses as they grow older. In this segment several chronic conditions that affec...
Age Happens: Increase in Life Expectancy
For years, scientific research on aging focused only on its negative aspects. But improved medical care and extensive public health programs have dramatically increased the average human lifespan. Aging and dying, like many aspects of our health, ar...
Age Happens: Aging and Cognitive Loss
The most alarming condition for many elderly people is the possibility of cognitive loss. Significant memory loss, dementia, is not normal. In addition to memory problems it is related to problems with language or spatial skills, judgment and reason...
Final Chapter: Death Isn't What It Used to Be
A century ago, most people spent their last hours of life at home surrounded by family and friends. More recent generations have experienced death in the hospital often shrouded in machines and tubes. For many people death is a subject they choose n...
Age Happens: Living in a Retirement Community
At Hollenbeck Home, one of the country's oldest licensed residential centers, Rosaline and Ching-U Ip found a way to maintain their independence, yet be assured of support when they needed it. In addition to the residential side, Hollenbeck has its ...
Working It Out: Fitness Across the Lifespan
No matter how old a person is the goal of being physical fit is important. Two seniors, both over 80 talk about the importance of exercise in their lives. The health benefits of a moderate exercise program are enormous, even in the older population....
Working It Out: Relationship Between Exercise and Health
Technology has made life easier, but it has also made us less active. Nearly one-fourth of American adults are sedentary. Another one-third are not physically active enough to be considered fit. Studies show that exercise is vital to good health. It...