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With so much focus on the new and valuable Covid bivalent booster shot, you might forget about your need to get the usual “Fall” shot, i.e., your flu vaccination. But that would be a mistake, given everything experts know and warn us about this Fall. While the scope and severity…

It’s almost a rite of passage: Reach a certain age, take a stumble, and a serious injury is almost inevitable. The data alone are worth repeating: One in four adults 65 and over suffers a fall each year and 3 million adults over 65 wind up in the hospital ER…

With the new year upon us (but many of the old stressors remaining), you may be hesitant to receive advice about “new beginnings.” After all, the current state of affairs has enough curveballs and challenges to leave most of us unwilling to rock our personal boats right now. Yet, as…

So most of us are back inside, either due to winter weather or perhaps forgoing some of the social activities we previously thought were safe, as we wait out the Omicron variant and hope to return to better days soon. That means we may be in search of easily accessible…

As the saying goes, one of the keys to happiness may be having a bad memory. Yet as we grow older, bad memory itself may be a cause for unhappiness or even alarm. While we have previously posted on agebuzz about “normal” forgetting versus something more concerning, many of us…

It’s often a tightrope walk. When you have older loved ones who may be frail, isolated, or alone, there is always the concern that you protect them from harm even while respecting their autonomy and dignity. Perhaps in no area is this of more concern than when it comes to…