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Medicare will now cover obesity counseling and screening to help eligible beneficiaries lose weight. And HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson says Medicare officials need to do more to stop nursing homes from drugging dementia patients withy psychiatric meds.
Eating fish at least once per week can seriously reduce your chances of developing Alzheimer's disease or dementia, researchers say"”but only if the fish is cooked in certain ways. And hallucinogens are back, this time for a variety of therapeutic uses.
Reason For Snacking-Not Timing-Matters Most: It's 10 a.m. Breakfast was three hours ago. Lunch isn't for another two. But your stomach is growling. Time for a mid-morning snack? Sure!-if you want to undermine your diet, researchers say. A 1 2-month study of women dieters ages 50-75, published in…
If Congress doesn't act before January 1, doctors will see a 27.4 percent cut in their reimbursement pay from Medicare. And a new book from architect Wid Chapman and gerontologist Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld explores (in full-pictured glory) 33 examples of homes that have been designed with an eye toward aging in place.
Underweight individuals have a 40 percent higher risk of dying in the first month after surgery than patients who are overweight, U.S. researchers reported in the Archives of Surgery. And the congressional panel charged with devising a plan to reduce the nation's deficit has failed and folded.
According to the most recent census bureau data, Americans are more likely to reach 90 than ever before"”and by 2050, one in 10 Americans could reach that age ... If only we could all age as gracefully as Carmen Dell'Orefice, the 80-year-old supermodel who's still working the runways.
Yet the deficit reduction committee's deadline fast approaching, it's still uncertain whether panel members will be able to get over their current partisan deadlock and actually do what they set out to do"”and if they fail, older Americans have a lot to lose. Plus, a new analysis finds 20 percent of all American adults are taking medication to treat some sort of mental or behavioral health problem.
Boomer retirees, either battered by a bad economy or just harboring a greater desire than their predecessors to age in place, are staying put and planning to work longer. Net migration to a group of counties across the country that are primarily retirement magnets falling 70 percent last year.
According to a new report released by International Diabetes Foundation, one in 10 adults worldwide"”some 522 million people"”could have diabetes by 2030. And a new study of thousands of older women in the United States found those who got the most exercise and watched the least television were the least likely to be diagnosed with depression.
The percentage of boomers"”73 percent"”planning to postpone retirement longer than they thought has risen six percent since just this past spring. And new research shows that though cutting back on salt does lower blood pressure, it could increase other heart disease risk factors.