What is the 16:8 intermittent fasting diet for weight loss? Intermittent fasting has become increasingly popular as a convenient way to lose weight without restricting what you can eat during feast hours. There are several different methods of intermittent fasting, one of the most accessible being the 16:8, which alternates between 16 hours of fasting overnight and 8 hours of… Published on: 2022-01-14 Source: Longevity Technology By Laura Allison KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Dealing With Drug Prices Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Medicare officials have preliminarily decided to restrict reimbursement for Aduhelm, the controversial Alzheimer’s drug, to only patients participating in approved clinical… Published on: 2022-01-13 Source: Kaiser Health News Spermidine and COVID-19: supplements for improving immune health After almost two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing demand for effective treatments has been largely unmet and a cure for COVID-19 remains elusive. Spermidine supplements may play a part in immune health; studies investigating the impact of spermidine on the COVID-causing SARS-CoV2 virus found that the longevity-boosting polyamine… Published on: 2022-01-11 Source: Longevity Technology By Laura Allison Black-Owned Hospice Seeks to Bring Greater Ease in Dying to Black Families This time, it didn’t take much persuading for Mary Murphy to embrace home hospice. When her mother was dying from Alzheimer’s disease in 2020, she had been reluctant until she saw what a help it was. So when her husband, Willie, neared the end of his life, she embraced… Published on: 2022-01-10 Source: Kaiser Health News By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Researchers call for family caregivers to be better incorporated into nursing home workforces Credit: krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images Providers, patients and policymakers should better incorporate informal caregivers into skilled nursing facilities to enhance professional caregivers’ capabilities and efficiencies, according to University of Pennsylvania researchers. Family members and other caregivers who support community-dwelling seniors with multiple activities could be used to lessen the blow… Published on: 2022-01-05 Source: McKnights LTC News By Danielle Brown As Covid Hits Nursing Homes’ Finances, Town Residents Fight to Save Alzheimer’s Facility Marvin Querry, 86, was on his tractor, planting rye on his 770-acre western Missouri farm, when the call came in early November. It was the social worker from Barone Alzheimer’s Care Center, where Querry’s wife, Diane, is a resident. The facility would be closing because of financial hardship, she… Published on: 2022-01-04 Source: Kaiser Health News By Judith Graham Famous & 65 Look who's turning 65 this monthFind out which celebrities are turning 65 this month!Image Source: WikipediaJanuary 2 – Lynne Cox, open water swimmer, speaker, authorAmerican Lynne Cox has a slew of swimming records to her credit, but she was never in the Olympics. That’s due to her adventuring spirit and specialty:… Published on: 2022-01-03 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Epigenetics: Beyond DNA Do life experiences modify our genetic inheritance to circumvent our genetic “fate”? “Epigenetics is the cellular equivalent of how to locate and place bookmarks.” — Ross L. Levine, physician and scientistEveryone seems to be talking about epigenetics. That can be embarrassing when you may not be quite sure what it means… Published on: 2021-12-16 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Tax Strategies for Retirement Taxes can take a big bite out of your retirement income. Keep more of your money with these tips. Financial advisors boost client returns by investing and taking out retirement funds in a manner that minimizes tax consequences, according to a recent analysis by Morningstar researchers. In fact, they discovered that… Published on: 2021-12-14 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors A vaccine for aging that eliminates senescent cells Japanese researchers claim vaccine eliminates senescent cells. A team of researchers in Japan, led by Professor Toru Minamino of Juntendo University, claims to have developed a vaccine that removes the senescent cells that build up with age; senescence cells, often called zombie cells, emit damaging toxic chemicals and cause several… Published on: 2021-12-13 Source: Longevity Technology By Eleanor Garth How Climate Change May Affect Your Retirement Extreme weather events will likely cause expenses to rise across the country while presenting particular danger to older adults. “Most people want to escape the winters of the Northeast or the high taxes of certain states, but [climate change] may make them pause and do a little bit more research,” says… Published on: 2021-12-12 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Can You Trust Wristband Health Readings? Rapid advances in healthcare technology allow many older adults to monitor their vital signs with a glance at their wrist. But is the technology accurate? You’ve probably seen or heard of the multitude of health monitors you can strap on your wrist. And you might assume that they have passed testing… Published on: 2021-12-09 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Technology of the future: how LyGenesis is aiming for the immortal liver Longevity Week’s Science Summit ended with a bang – and a mythical vulture. The last in the series of overviews of the Longevity Forum’s Science Summit at Oxford’s Oriel College, part of Longevity Week and hosted by Professor Lynne Cox and Jim Mellon. Longevity.Technology: When it comes to organ transplantation, LyGenesis is a disruption titan. But… Published on: 2021-12-08 Source: Longevity Technology By Daragh Campbell Stress makes life’s clock tick faster: Chilling out slows it down Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These so-called 'epigenetic clocks' have proved to be better predictors of lifespan and health than chronological age. In a… Published on: 2021-12-06 Source: Science Daily – Healthy Aging Cataract surgery linked with lessened dementia risk Based on the longitudinal data of over 3,000 study participants, researchers found that subjects who underwent cataract surgery had nearly 30% lower risk of developing dementia from any cause compared with those who did not. This lowered risk persisted for at least a decade after surgery. Cataract surgery was also… Published on: 2021-12-06 Source: Science Daily – Healthy Aging Researchers identify sildenafil as candidate drug for Alzheimer’s disease A new study has identified sildenafil — an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Ravatio) — as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease. Researchers determined that sildenafil is associated with 69% reduced incidence of Alzheimer's. … Published on: 2021-12-06 Source: Science Daily – Healthy Aging Cabbies May Unlock Alzheimer’s Secret Find out why researchers are studying London cab drivers’ brains to learn more about dementia. If you hop into one of London’s iconic black taxis, the driver won’t chart a course to your destination with GPS. That’s because every cabbie in this sprawling city since 1865 has had to pass a… Published on: 2021-12-05 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Researchers find surprising benefit to the immune system following infection The human body's immune system weakens over time, making older adults more susceptible to infections and leaving scientists with the puzzling dilemma of how to maintain health across the lifespan. A recent study into how infection affects the immune system resulted in a surprising outcome that could lead to new… Published on: 2021-12-03 Source: Science Daily – Healthy Aging Scientists say they’ve zeroed in on a cause of Alzheimer’s Ryan Julian, Ph.D., Image credit: UCR Researchers from the University of California, Riverside say they have uncovered a reason why some people with protein plaques and tangles in their brains do not develop Alzheimer’s disease. The prevailing theory is that brain plaques and tangles (made up of protein fragments)… Published on: 2021-12-02 Source: McKnights LTC News By freelance3 Unlocking the cause of UTI-induced delirium Researchers have found that blocking the action of a protein called interleukin 6 (IL-6), part of the immune system, could resolve the delirium that often accompanies urinary tract infection (UTI) in elderly patients. Their study could pave the way for clinical trials of IL-6 inhibitors as a treatment for UTI-associated… Published on: 2021-12-02 Source: Science Daily – Healthy Aging Printers that can now print DNA DNA Script obtains CE Mark for SYNTAX DNA printing platform. DNA Script, a leader in Enzymatic DNA Synthesis (EDS), announced the CE marking of its SYNTAX System, the first EDS-powered benchtop DNA printer. With this marking, the SYNTAX System meets EU safety, health and environmental protection guidelines, and DNA Script will begin commercial sales of the SYNTAX… Published on: 2021-12-02 Source: Longevity Technology By Eleanor Garth Famous & 65 Look who's turning 65 this monthFind out which celebrities are turning 65 this month!Image Source: WikipediaDecember 7 – Larry Bird, basketball player, coach and executiveLarry, you only told me one lie. You said there would be another Larry Bird. There will never, ever be another Larry Bird.— Magic Johnson, at Bird’s… Published on: 2021-12-02 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors A brain fitbit that can spot Alzheimer’s with up to 94% accuracy Altoida raising new financing for augmented reality cognitive assessment platform that dramatically improves early detection of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Earlier this year, AR-powered cognitive assessment company Altoida was the focus of a Nature paper that highlighted the remarkable ability of its platform to identify cognitive and functional changes… Published on: 2021-12-01 Source: Longevity Technology By Danny Sullivan For Older Adults, Smelling the Roses May Be More Difficult The reports from covid-19 patients are disconcerting. Only a few hours before, they were enjoying a cup of pungent coffee or the fragrance of flowers in a garden. Then, as if a switch had been flipped, those smells disappeared. Young and old alike are affected — more than 80%… Published on: 2021-12-01 Source: Kaiser Health News By Judith Graham When the Eye on Older Patients Is a Camera In the middle of a rainy Michigan night, 88-year-old Dian Wurdock walked out the front door of her son’s home in Grand Rapids, barefoot and coatless. Her destination was unknown even to herself. Wurdock was several years into a dementia diagnosis that turned out to be Alzheimer’s disease. By… Published on: 2021-11-23 Source: Kaiser Health News By Sofie Kodner Ageless: Can We Turn Back Time? Will you live to celebrate your 120th birthday, where you’ll play a lively game of hide and seek with the great-grandkids? It could happen, according to the author of a recent book. Biologist and physicist Andrew Steele has penned a provocative book, Ageless: The new Science of Getting Older Without Getting… Published on: 2021-11-22 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors What You Need To Know About RMDs Understand required minimum distributions and how to strategize to reduce taxes and make the most of your retirement accounts.You spend your working years tucking money away for retirement. But the same accounts that gave you a tax break when you contributed have likely been growing over the years. That’s a… Published on: 2021-11-18 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Lawsuit threatens first-of-its-kind public long-term care insurance program Credit: Audtakorn Sutarmjam / EyeEm/Getty Images A first-of-its-kind state program that funds long-term care through a mandatory payroll tax is being challenged in federal court. A group of employees and workers who oppose the public long-term care insurance program last week filed a lawsuit in the Western District of… Published on: 2021-11-17 Source: McKnights LTC News By Danielle Brown “Dancing molecules” successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries Researchers have developed an injectable therapy based on nanofibers that has enabled paralysed mice with severe spinal cord injuries to regain the ability to walk. Northwestern University researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses “dancing molecules” to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries. In… Published on: 2021-11-17 Source: Longevity Technology By Eleanor Garth 20 Best Holiday Gifts for Older Adults Holiday (and birthday!) shopping just got a whole lot easier with these thoughtful presents for all the people over 65 in your life.Coming up with just the right gift can be as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. We’ve searched for the top 20 gifts for seniors that… Published on: 2021-11-16 Source: Society for Certified Senior Advisors By Society of Certified Senior Advisors Older posts
