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So does your current life resemble your pre-pandemic life? Have you resumed all of your old routines, and visited all of your previously cherished places and groups? Resumed an active social life? If so, consider yourself fortunate. Because many of your peers have not been able or willing to recreate…

By Kristina Lubofsky   My Grandpa Fred loved the holidays. He would sit at the head of our Christmas dinner table, gesture to everyone, and say “Gee, isn’t this wonderful, us all together like this?” It wasn’t about the gifts, the decorations, or even the food: It was about us…

If given the chance, most of us would welcome opportunities to strengthen our cognitive reserve and lower our risk for dementia. And if those opportunities coincided with enjoyable leisure activities, all the better. We already know that there are many lifestyle changes you can make to lower the likelihood of…

Everyone, regardless of their sex, feels the effects of aging. What may be less obvious is that, depending on whether you are a woman or a man, the process of aging may take a different toll on you and help determine how well you age as well as how long…

If you’ve never experienced it, consider yourself lucky. But for the more than 749 million people worldwide who suffer from the ringing, buzzing, pulsing noises that they hear inside their ears or head (with no corresponding external noise that anyone else can hear), the experience of tinnitus is one that…

If you’re a person growing older, you’ve no doubt had occasions to wonder whether you are beginning to lose some of your memory. While dementia is not a normal part of aging, occasional bouts of forgetfulness are. So, whether you occasionally forget where you put your keys- or, on a…