Volunteering

While many things can put you at risk for Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia, as you likely know, there are also many actions you can take to alter your lifestyle and lower your risk for being diagnosed with dementia. Whether it be through living a more physically active…

We live in an era when problems outpace solutions and more help is necessary than we can possibly provide. We also live during a time when volunteers are stepping up in significant numbers to provide much-needed help. And at the same time, evidence is mounting to demonstrate that valuable health…

This past August, the consultancy firm Age Wave, along with the Harris Poll, conducted a study entitled The New Age of Aging, which reports on the significant demographic shifts currently happening in our country and the changing views of Americans on getting older. This survey involved over 2000 respondents, 900…

 As we’ve previously posted, social connections in your life appear to be critical for all sorts of health parameters as you get older. Covid underscored that even for the best of reasons, isolating older adults can cause serious negative consequences to their physical and emotional well-being. Even “weak ties,” i.e.,…

The Roman philosopher Seneca once said, “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” Yet in this day and age, kindness appears to be too often in short supply: we have divisive, brutish politics, brutal armies destroying innocent people, and cities and rural areas in…

No matter where you live, you’ve likely now felt the effects. As The Washington Post recently reported, nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer and 64% of us live in a place that experienced a multi-day heatwave sometime in the last few months. It’s no longer…