Healthy Living

April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. The month focuses on educating the public about a disease that strikes 1 in every 100 North Americans, commonly people over the age of 50.

Almost one in ten Americans – largely seniors – wears dentures, and if you wear one of these removable dental appliances, it’s important to know how to take care of them.

Proper maintenance of your dentures includes:

The last surviving member of the Stanford class of 1933, Dr. Ephraim Engleman, is turning 102 in a few weeks. There are many interesting accomplishments to his credit.

There’s a disease spreading rapidly among the world’s elderly, but advocates for the aging say it’s a condition that is easily avoided.

As reported by The Telegraph, a former advisor to the British government on elderly affairs, Professor David Oliver, said many seniors have minor age-related ailments that are treatable, but many doctors and medical professionals are often misdiagnosing small issues as the ‘acopia’ disease, which means ‘failure to cope.’

Life expectancy has risen faster over the past century than it did since the appearance of the humans, 200,000 years ago. That makes 72 the new 30, scientists say, and as reported by CNBC.