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1/18/2012 - How Exercise May Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
by admin on January 18, 2012 5:35 pm
Alzheimer’s disease, with its inexorable loss of memory and self, understandably alarms most of us. This is especially so since, at the moment, there are no cures for the condition and few promising drug treatments. But a cautiously encouraging new study from The Archives of Neurology suggests that for some people, a daily walk or jog could… Read more 1/18/2012 - How Exercise May Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
1/17/2012 - US wants effective Alzheimer's treatment by 2025
by admin on January 17, 2012 9:28 pm
Effective treatments for Alzheimer’s by 2025? That’s the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging population. Read the full article at The Boston Globe.
At Senate Aging Committee’s 50th Anniversary, Experts Ponder Future Legislative Concerns
by admin on January 13, 2012 10:45 pm
Video: Center on Longevity Director Laura Carstensen speaks about the great potential of an aging society and how elected officials must prepare for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Prepared by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Fifty years after its inception, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will have a more important… Read more At Senate Aging Committee’s 50th Anniversary, Experts Ponder Future Legislative Concerns
The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death
by admin on January 13, 2012 10:31 pm
The Stanford Center on Longevity partnered with the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and UC Hastings to host this two-part event, which examined emerging evidence from the expanding field of neuroscience and the effect of this evidence on law and policy. The panels and speakers over the two days of the conference considered… Read more The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death
Center to Co-Host Law and Policy Symposium on “The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death”
by admin on January 13, 2012 10:27 pm
Working with the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences and the Hastings College of the Law, the Center on Longevity will be hosting a two-day symposium on the shifting legal and policy implications of new developments in neuroscience. The event will unfold along developmental lines. DAY 1: Hastings College of the Law San Francisco,… Read more Center to Co-Host Law and Policy Symposium on “The Developing Brain: Neuroscience from Womb to Death”
1/12/2012 - Age Discrimination Takes Its Toll
by admin on January 13, 2012 6:31 pm
A startling proportion of older people report that they’ve experienced discrimination: 63 percent, in a study recently published in Research on Aging. The most commonly cited cause? “Thirty percent report being mistreated because of their age,” said the lead author Ye Luo, a Clemson University sociologist. Perceived discrimination because of gender, race or ancestry, disabilities or… Read more 1/12/2012 - Age Discrimination Takes Its Toll
1/11/2012 - How Long Until the End?
by admin on January 12, 2012 12:24 am
Last spring, I wrote about a group of geriatricians and researchers assembling online a variety of geriatric indexes that do a reasonably good job of predicting mortality for those older than age 60. Since a number of tests and treatments ought to take life expectancy into account, they reasoned, physicians should have these validated tools… Read more 1/11/2012 - How Long Until the End?
1/10/2012 - Interactive Tools to Assess the Likelihood of Death
by admin on January 12, 2012 12:19 am
To help prevent overtesting and overtreatment of older patients — or undertreatment for those who remain robust at advanced ages — medical guidelines increasingly call for doctors to consider life expectancy as a factor in their decision-making. But clinicians, research has shown, are notoriously poor at predicting how many years their patients have left. Now,… Read more 1/10/2012 - Interactive Tools to Assess the Likelihood of Death
Anxiety vs. Stress: What's The Difference?
by admin on January 9, 2012 10:31 pm
We all experience stress, right? It’s a fact of nature, and it offers pretty important evolutionary advantages. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to sound the proverbial alarm if danger were imminent. Stress is one of the greatest tools an animal has to beat the odds and stay alive. Read the full article at Huffington… Read more Anxiety vs. Stress: What's The Difference?
1/9/2012 - Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets
by admin on January 9, 2012 5:57 pm
At 17, I wrote a speech titled, “When You Come to the End of Your Days, Will You Be Able to Write Your Own Epitaph?” It reflected the approach to life I adopted after my mother’s untimely death from cancer at age 49. I chose to live each day as if it could be my… Read more 1/9/2012 - Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets
