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How Music Can Combat Social Isolation in Older Adults.
Eating this breakfast food could help you live longer, study suggests.
Dog walking improves mobility and prevents falls in older adults.
Population health and community health: brokering the two through art and community engagement.
Virus season roars back with "quad-demic" of illness.
The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science.
All that is true about aging is illuminated on a walk.
Spy show reveals much about senior living for the industry’s benefit, leaders say.
A Free-Transit Prescription for Healthier Communities.
How Music Can Combat Social Isolation in Older Adults.
Sixty and Me - As we age, social connections can become harder to maintain. Retirement, the loss of loved ones, mobility challenges, or even global events like pandemics can leave older adults feeling isolated and alone. But what if the key to combating loneliness was something as simple and universal as music?
Eating this breakfast food could help you live longer, study suggests
AOL - Eating breakfast regularly has been shown to help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity, according to UC Davis Health. There is also evidence that eating a healthy breakfast helps with brain function, especially memory and focus, the University of California-operated health provider said. Now, new research has revealed that oatmeal can promote longevity.
Dog walking improves mobility and prevents falls in older adults
Earth.com - The morning ritual of walking the dog might be more than just a daily chore for older adults. New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin has revealed the significant benefits of regular dog walking for older adults. The researchers found that walking a dog frequently can improve mobility, reduce the risk of falls, and lower the fear of falling – an important factor in maintaining independence and quality of life as people age.
Population health and community health: brokering the two through art and community engagement
Frontiers - As community engagement continues to grow as a valuable tool for implementing population health strategies for health systems and for achieving community health goals in communities, all parties must recognize that the social elements that strengthen the engagements must be prioritized. The arts and aesthetic experiences should be seen as essential tools. If medicine is to be a public trust, it must emphasize valued aspects of public life in which communities heal, grow and thrive through culture and the arts –amplifying the humanity in all.
Virus season roars back with "quad-demic" of illness
Axios - The spread of influenza A, COVID and RSV is "high" or "very high" across much of the U.S. at the same time norovirus cases are well above normal levels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and wastewater surveillance data shows.
The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science
NYT - Medical advances have beaten back many relentless assassins in recent decades, such as cancer and heart disease. A wide range of treatments share credit: surgery, medicines, radiation, genetic therapies and healthful habits. Mortality rates for those two diseases, the top causes of death in the United States, have fallen sharply. But in an aging population, Alzheimer’s death rates have gone in the opposite direction. Over the past 25 years, Alzheimer’s research has suffered a litany of ostensible fraud and other misconduct by world-famous researchers and obscure scientists alike, all trying to ascend in a brutally competitive field.
All that is true about aging is illuminated on a walk
WAPO - I was out today in the early morning walking with a close friend of 64 years named Shelley Adams. Despite some huge losses over time, she is always overtly positive. I don’t normally like this in a person. I make a rare exception for her. We hike several times a week beside our local creek, now a twisting, flowing stream that rushes over rocks, mint and twigs.
Spy show reveals much about senior living for the industry’s benefit, leaders say
McKnight’s - A fictional series about a man who goes undercover at a retirement community to help solve a potential crime is causing senior living leaders in the real world to feel exposed — in a good way. Have you seen the Netflix comedy “A Man on the Inside,” starring Ted Danson as Charlie, a retired widower who answers a detective agency’s ad and subsequently moves into an upscale retirement community in San Francisco to try to learn what happened to a family heirloom belonging to a resident?
A Free-Transit Prescription for Healthier Communities
ReasonstobeCheerful - From physical activity to access to medical care, how people get around is interconnected with their physical and mental health.
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