Retired Nurse Benefits from Hospital-at-Home Program
A new program provides hospital-level care in patients’ homes.
Category: Older Adult Health
Say What? Seven Tips for Getting in Tune with Your Hearing
Here’s how to protect your hearing before and after you notice a change.
Lesser-Known Dementias and the Difficulty of Diagnosing Them
A Q&A with Woody Durham’s neurologist.
A Guide to a Fulfilling Sex Life for Seniors
Intimacy in your senior years comes with benefits and challenges.
How Exercise Can Prevent Falls
The Otago program’s at-home exercises build strength, balance and a better life for seniors.
Can virtual reality help us prevent falls in the elderly and others?
Every year, falls lead to hospitalization or death for hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans. Standard clinical techniques generally cannot diagnose balance impairments before they lead to falls. But researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State Unive
Older women with normal T-scores may not need bone mineral density ...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and other organizations have recommended that women ages 65 and older be routinely screened for osteoporosis using bone mineral density (BMD) screening.