Category: Senior Health

Let’s Play a Few Mind Games, Shall We…
Several decades ago, a fitness movement exploded enticing generations of people of all ages to exchange a sedentary lifestyle for a more active one.  We jogged, aerobicized, golfed, …

Silver Alert - New System in Texas for Locating Missing Seniors
Most people are now aware at how effective the Amber Alert system has become in the efficient recovery of missing children.  With the aging of so many Americans and a correlative increase in age-related mental impairment cases, such as Alzheimer’s, the need for a similar statewide and national alert system to quickly locate missing seniors has surfaced. 

Health spending in the U.S. rose at about 6.9 percent in 2005, nearly toppling the $2 trillion mark.  While this number is staggering and twice that spent by other industrialized countries, the 6.9 percent increase seen in 2005 actually indicates a small increase when compared to the percentages seen in the years from 1999 through 2004.  

Evidence has long shown that the likelihood of a person to succomb to any of the various types of cancers increases with age.  Scientists around the world spend countless hours hovering over powerful microscopes in hopes of furthering their understanding between this link.  Occasionally, their willful persistance pays off and invaluable headway toward further understanding and eventual solution is made.