You hear a lot about the health dangers of air pollution, but there’s another type of pollution (a type you…
Aging in America offers plenty of opportunities…and plenty of challenges. Medicare helps pay health-care bills, but the health-care system doesn’t…
Does it feel like time is moving faster as you get older? When you were a kid, a summer day…
If you’re a family caregiver—an adult child caring for an aging parent, for example, or a wife caring for a…
If you have a serious health condition, anything from cancer to congestive heart failure to dementia to Parkinson’s disease, you…
For many of us, the idea of retirement seems downright heavenly, a reward for a lifetime of hard work. And…
Gladys McGarey, MD, has a very busy professional life. A pioneer in the holistic medicine movement, she offers life consultations…is…
October is the start of the open-enrollment season for Medicare. You’re probably already feeling overwhelmed by all the TV ads…
You may not be planning to grow old alone, but no one can predict the future. Today’s greater freedom to…
Long-term health issues can lead to significant financial problems for patients who misunderstand Medicare’s complex rules. For the most part,…
Deep within the brain lives a collection of neurons called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN for short. The SCN is…
Finding a competent and honest caregiver to help take care of a family member or loved one is a complicated…
Just two years after the aducanumab (Aduhelm) controversy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved another drug for Alzheimer’s…
In the documentary “Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory,” Henry, an elderly man with Alzheimer’s disease, sits despondent,…
The only things worth talking about are the things you can’t talk about…so said my Dad many, many times in…
