I just talked with a friend who was complaining to me about the treatment his aging mom was receiving in the hospital. Seems her arms were black and blue from the nurses trying to take her blood samples—they just couldn’t seem to find a vein. One night no nurse would answer the buzzer when [...]
While most of us boomers are grovelling around at our menial jobs scrimping and saving every penny and dreaming of how we plan to retire, we may be missing the point. If life starts to center around work and money—beware! You may not have much of a life when your work stops. [...]
After spending over $200 on plumber bills to fix a toilet that never worked right. I finally broke down and bought and installed a new toilet myself. The new toilet cost around $150 at Home Depot, and the wax ring was $3.50. It only took an hour, and considering how much I had worried about [...]
A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, according to two new studies from Cornell University food scientists.
The studies show that the chemical quercetin, a so-called phytonutrient, appears to be largely responsible for protecting brain cells when assaulted by [...]
A recent study demonstrating the preventive effects of cannabinoids on Alzheimer’s disease, was conducted by researchers at the Cajal Institute and Complutense University in Madrid. The study appears in the February 23, 2005, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
Researchers showed that cannabinoids prevented cognitive decline through rat experiments. In these experiments, they injected either [...]
People who drink wine weekly or monthly are more than two times less likely to develop dementia according to a recent study.
The results are exciting because they could mean that substances in wine reduce the occurrence of dementia, which means that soon scientists will distill these substances into a wine “pill” you’ll take in your [...]
Things get crazy when your aging parents lose their marbles. I received a call from an old friend who was describing her fate in dealing with her mom and her memory loss. The problem is excruciating because one minute her mom would be there conversing with her and offering motherly advice and the next [...]