Tag: aging
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Opinion: Americans may have to start working younger and retire older.
[ad_1] “The demographic clock is ticking for the West.” China announced earlier this year that for the first time since the 1960s, deaths outnumbered births and its population slipped in 2022 by 850,000 to 1.41 billion. COVID-19 brought this event forward a few years. More fundamentally, the legacy of China’s now-abandoned one-child policy and the high cost of…
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Vitamins can make your brain ‘3 years younger,’ study says
[ad_1] If you’re getting more forgetful as you age—and who among us isn’t—there are two things you can do about it this Memorial Day weekend. Take a multivitamin. And go for a 30-minute walk. Oh — and then keep both of them up. So report peer-reviewed scientific studies out this week, which have found that…
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Who is that in the mirror? How to love that reflection as you age.
[ad_1] If you’re growing increasingly dismayed by your looks as you age, you’re not alone. Aging celebrities struggle too. “I don’t look in the mirror and if I do, I look away,” said actress Emma Thompson, 64. “When I’m looking in the mirror, I’m always trying to make myself look ‘better’—turning this way or that…pulling something in.…
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Two breakthroughs on dementia — one that’s useful right now
[ad_1] Six million among us have full-blown Alzheimer’s disease, including 10% of those over 65 and half of everyone over 80. And many more have other types of dementia, or cognitive impairment typically associated with age. Actor Bruce Willis, a mere 68 years young, is the latest heartbreaking example in the public eye. So when…
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This quick online test will tell if you face a 37% higher risk of dementia
[ad_1] If you want to know if you face an extra risk of developing cognitive impairment or dementia when you get older, you can take a couple of quick—and free—online tests. There’s a short one here with only four questions, one here with 10, and a long one here with 30. They’re called the Cohen…