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5/30/2013 - Healthy lifestyle choices mean fewer memory complaints

Research has shown that healthy behaviors are associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, but less is known about the potential link between positive lifestyle choices and milder memory complaints, especially those that occur earlier in life and could be the first indicators of later problems. Read the full article at BrainUpdates.com.

5/30/2013 - Why the Boomers Are the Most Hated Generation

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s flappers also grew up in a time of plenty, but they were allowed to age out of their sybaritic image. What makes the Boomers different? Read the full article at The Atlantic.

5/30/2013 - Boomers aren't working forever, after all

Baby boomers have been talking a good game for years about working longer and reinventing the last third of life. Now that it’s game time, their retirement decisions look somewhat conventional. Read the full article at Reuters.

5/30/2013 - Alzheimer's and the Artist

Mary Wyant spent years as a professional artist. But after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she slowly became unable to paint. Here is a look at her work through the years, and as the disease took hold. Read the full article at PBS News Hour.

5/30/2013 - Joblessness Shortens Lifespan of Least Educated White Women, Research Says

Researchers have known for some time that life expectancy is declining for the country’s least educated white women, but they have not been able to explain why. A new study has found that the two factors most strongly associated with higher death rates were smoking and not having a job. Read the full article at… Read more 5/30/2013 - Joblessness Shortens Lifespan of Least Educated White Women, Research Says

5/30/2013 - Aging Chinese Face a Bleak Picture

High Rates of Poverty, Disability and Mental Illness Haunt Elderly, Pose Growing Economic Challenge. Read the full article at The Wall Street Journal.

5/30/2013 - Coping With Alzheimer's: A Mother and Daughter Portrait Of Long-Term Care

With baby boomers aging and living longer, more people will need it. But new research has shown most Americans have done little or nothing to plan for these situations that can carry a heavy emotional and economic toll. Read the full article at PBS News Hour.

5/30/2013 - How to avoid brain cell ‘traffic jams’

Defects in a protein that controls the speed at which materials move through brain cells can lead to deadly “pileups,” like those seen in Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full article at Futurity.

5/30/2013 - Trimming transportation costs in retirement

Retirement savers are often warned about the impact of health-care and housing costs, but there’s another major expense Americans need to plan for as they age — transportation. Read the full article at MarketWatch.

5/29/2013 - Signs of Alzheimer's Disease: 10 Things You Should Know

Mary Wyant loved words. She loved to speak them and write them and read them. She was a stickler for proper grammar and a “mean” Scrabble player. “Mean in both senses of the word,” according to those who played with her. That’s why her daughter Rebecca noticed right away when her mother began calling a… Read more 5/29/2013 - Signs of Alzheimer's Disease: 10 Things You Should Know