Stay Active and Beat the Heat: Summer Tips for Seniors in Richmond

Some older people love to use the latest cell phones with all the bells and whistles and take photos with the latest built-in...

More than 3 million Americans do, and 75% of them are seniors. It's one of the leading causes of blindness in people over 60, but only...

About 20 million Americans live with macular degeneration, an age-related condition. It comes on gradually, painlessly, and progressively...

“Using the Internet may help extend the cognitively healthy lifespan,” notes a study published in last month’s Journal of the American...

Last week, I wrote about the growing number of older adults who die from fall-related injuries. Statistics show that every 11 seconds, an...

Most people in the US sleep from around 11 PM to 7 AM, but many don’t. Or can’t. They fall asleep and wake up hours later than what’s...

Contrary to stereotypes, older drivers can be safer drivers. While there are more drivers in their 70s driving more miles each year, a...

The problem isn’t waking up in the middle of the night; cycling out of sleep every two hours or so is normal. The real problem is not...

It’s incontinence. Depending on whose statistics you believe, between 15 and 23million Americans have it, 80 to 85 percent of them women....

It’s what happens during and after the recovery. Of all US surgeries, almost 40% are performed on patients 65 or older, almost one in...

Virtually every aspect of a home can affect [a person with dementia’s] quality of life,” says Charles Fuschillo Jr., president and CEO of...

It depends. Medical research has found that exercise in general can help promote heart health, prolong life, and postpone the onset of...

Telehealth was originally for rural patients – to spare them hours of round-trip driving to keep a 15-minute doctor appointment. The...

Smartphones are an essential part of everyday life. For people like your parents – members of the Silent Generation or Baby Boomers –...

Almost 25% of all Americans 65 and older – some 13,525,000 men and women – have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But another 4.7%...

If you’re having trouble reading type this size, you’re not alone. Thanks to presbyopia (AKA farsightedness), so does everyone else at a...

Last week, I wrote about how aging can affect driving safety. It affects different drivers in different ways, and some older drivers are...

In 2020, Federal Highway Administration data showed that some 31 million licensed drivers 70 and older (9.4% of total US population) were...

Sometimes independence-undermining disabilities develop slowly over time, and sometimes they strike literally overnight. But either way,...