Description: Simple question: who is happier a 30 year old or a 70 year old? What do you think? Must be the 30 year old if only for the existential issues, 70 years of age is WAY closer to death than 30 so, of course the 30 year old is happier right? Well, wrong, actually…. Read more »
Posts Categorized: Health and Prevention In Aging
Retirement Planning: Its not all finances and it is not just for people getting close to retirement age
Description: When you read the words “retirement planning” what is the first thing that comes to mind? Well, probably money and pension (and even at an early age you SHOULD be thinking about this) but what else should folks be thinking about as they approach and enter their retirement? I have written in an earlier… Read more »
MIND Diet: What Makes for “Good” Diet Research?
Description: One cannot open a paper or a magazine these days (especially in the weekend “lifestyle” editions) without encountering one or more article extolling the virtues of one diet or another for weight loss, health, wellness, vim vigor or longevity. Often such articles are rather light on systematic science or, if they cite studies they… Read more »
Trump, Jong-un, Stress and Resilience: What to do?
Description: I am not prepared to offer any sort of political comments on the current rhetoric being thrown back and forth between American president Donald Trump and Korean Leader Kim Jong-un. What I can do is recommend an insightful piece by Daniel Keating about the impacts of stress and anxiety on us that arise from… Read more »
Want a Positive Retirement? Find your ikigai!
Description: Are you looking forward to the, likely distant point in the future when you will retire? What will that be like? Having recently “retired” myself I can tell you that it is not (or it need not be) about sitting around and relaxing. In fact I have found myself telling people who ask me… Read more »
Want to Age Well? Sleep On It!
Description: As we age we tend to note that we do not seem to sleep as well as we did when we were younger (OK take my word for it). How are the different facets of our night’s sleep affected by ageing and what are the consequences? After you have collected your hypotheses on these… Read more »
Insomnia in People Over 65: How to Think About it and Deal With it
Description: How have you been sleeping lately? If you are over 65 years of age and you are having some difficulties falling and/or staying asleep you are not alone. In a large study 42% of people over 65 reported some sleep related issues. Given this what are your thoughts/beliefs/theories about insomnia? What causes it? What… Read more »
Gaming Depression: Playing your way to mental health
Description: How might playing a tablet based game have a positive impact upon symptoms of late-life (post 60 years) depression? Before you read the article linked below think about the symptoms that are typically associated with depression. In addition to mood related issues (obviously associated with depression) what sorts of cognitive factors are associated with… Read more »
Does Brain-Training Work? A Meta-Analysis Says Only Specifically
Description: You have no doubt noticed some of the many claims in the media about the possibility that playing brain-training games can improve your general cognitive functioning. Many of these claims include statements to the effect that research has proven that their game or games do in fact have a positive influence on people’s cognitive… Read more »
Sea Quest Heros versus Dementia!
Description: How might you playing an app based game help neuroscientists diagnose dementia among the elderly? Not sure? Well, the loss of spatial skill or the ability to navigate is an early symptom of the onset of dementia. So how about now, how might you answer that opening question? Give it some thought have a… Read more »
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