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Retaining the ability to get up and about easily — to walk across a parking lot, climb a set of stairs, rise from a chair and maintain balance — is an under-appreciated component of good health in later life, and one of the goals of functional fitness. When mobility ...

Navigating Aging focuses on medical issues and advice associated with aging and end-of-life care, helping America’s 45 million seniors and their families navigate the health care system. For more K...

Geriatricians are “experts in complexity,” said Dr. Eric Widera, director of the geriatrics medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. No one better understands how multiple medical problems interact in older people ...

Seniors enjoying their healthy longevity

With practicality in mind, we decided to take a look at the math of weight loss. At a physiological level, weight loss and weight gain revolve around caloric consumption and expenditure. Put simply- we lose weight when we eat less calories than we burn. Conversely...

If you have decided to make make 2017 a more healthful year for you, your lifestyle choices will change. What course will you chart? Diet? Exercise? How much? How little?  ??

Effect of exercise on brain health With aging, however, proteins called brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels fall. The decline is considered one reason brain function deteriorates in the elderly. Certain types of exercise, namely, ...

Seven Medicare Part D Costs to Prepare For...Switching plans might allow you to reduce your prescription drug costs. Medicare Part D beneficiaries are eligible to change Medicare Part D plans each year between October...

Arthritis is a clear sign of poor bone health that approaches primarily as one starts aging. It mainly affects the joints and people suffering from it complain of joint pain and stiffness.  Other symptoms ...