Category: Longevity News 2014

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5/8/2014 - The Silence of Doctors Around Alzheimer’s

by on May 8, 2014 4:02 pm
“Dementia is not something we doctors talk much about. We all have many patients with dementia — and more every year — but we never seem to chat about it the way we discuss kidney disease or cancer treatment. We may talk about the difficulties of obesity or emphysema, but never about dementia.” Read the… Read more 5/8/2014 - The Silence of Doctors Around Alzheimer’s
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5/7/2014 - Early Fitness Can Improve the Middle-Age Brain

by on May 7, 2014 7:34 pm
The more physically active you are at age 25, the better your thinking tends to be when you reach middle age, according to a large-scale new study. Encouragingly, the findings also suggest that if you negligently neglected to exercise when young, you can start now and still improve the health of your brain. Read the… Read more 5/7/2014 - Early Fitness Can Improve the Middle-Age Brain
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5/7/2014 - Infusion of young blood recharges brains of old mice, study finds

by on May 7, 2014 5:01 pm
In a study, published online May 4 in Nature Medicine, researchers used sophisticated techniques to pin down numerous important molecular, neuroanatomical and neurophysiological changes in the brains of old mice that shared the blood of young mice. But they also conducted a critical experiment that was far from sophisticated, said Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, the senior… Read more 5/7/2014 - Infusion of young blood recharges brains of old mice, study finds

5/6/2014 - Graying of America Is Speeding, Report Says

by on May 6, 2014 8:02 pm
The number of Americans 65 and older is expected to nearly double by the middle of the century when they will make up more than a fifth of the nation’s population, according to a Census Bureau report. Read the full article at The New York Times.

5/6/2014 - Reliance on 401(k) retirement accounts drops, poll shows

by on May 6, 2014 7:51 pm
Fewer Americans are counting on 401(k) accounts to fund their retirement years, apparently because of disappointment with the stock market after painful losses in the Great Recession, according to a new study. Read the full article at Los Angeles Times.
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5/5/2014 - Why Bring Up Death When We Could Talk About 'Something More Pleasant'?

by on May 5, 2014 7:51 pm
When people talk about extending the human lifespan to 120 it bothers Roz Chast. “That upsets me for a lot of reasons,” she tells NPR’s Melissa Block. “I feel like these are people who don’t really know anybody over 95.” The reality of old age, she says, is that “people are not in good shape,… Read more 5/5/2014 - Why Bring Up Death When We Could Talk About 'Something More Pleasant'?
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5/4/2014 - Aging Baby Boomers Becoming the Roommate Generation

by on May 4, 2014 4:27 pm
There was Felix-and-Oscar. There were The Golden Girls. Such arrangements–adults living with adult roommates–are about to get less comic and more common, say experts on housing and on the aging of the Baby Boom. Read the full article at ABC News.

5/4/2014 - Swapping Young Blood for Old Reverses Aging

by on May 4, 2014 4:26 pm
Muscle tone, endurance, memory, and smell improve in elderly mice infused with blood from younger mice. Read the full article at National Geographic.
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5/4/2014 - Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging

by on May 4, 2014 3:38 pm
Two teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains. As ghoulish as the research may sound, experts said that it could lead to treatments for disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease. Read the full article at The New York… Read more 5/4/2014 - Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging

5/3/2014 - A Path to Retirement, for Those Far From It

by on May 3, 2014 7:15 pm
“If I Can” is a snappy 7,000-word guide by William J. Bernstein, an investment adviser and author on financial subjects, that doubles as a financial-education curriculum, complete with additional reading assignments and a lesson plan. He hopes to help people put away enough money and to invest it wisely enough so that their futures will… Read more 5/3/2014 - A Path to Retirement, for Those Far From It