A growing body of evidence shows that retirees who continue working part-time tend to live longer, healthier lives than those who fully retire. It sounds counterintuitive in a culture that glorifies early retirement and endless leisure, but the data tells a compelling story about what really keeps us thriving as we age.
Two years ago, I noticed changes in my friend's ability to carry on conversations and her lack of awareness of current events. After COVID's isolation, she and her husband seldom left their house, and her husband spent more time on his computer. My friend's calls to me became more frequent and repetitive even though she had no news or reason to phone. She repeated the same three or four stories and often within a five-minute span.
An elderly woman with dementia has been left terrified to leave home after she was muggedjust yards from her front door in east London. Katherine Stockdale, 84, was targeted on Sturry Street in Poplar on Saturday, January 24, while walking back from the local market with her trolley. CCTV footage, which has been circulating on social media, appears to show a woman stopping Katherine in the street and asking her something.
This past month, many members of the American public (the sane part, at least) have been united in our wishful thinking: they want that man gone, and it can't happen soon enough. Last week, after Tr*mp's decaying hand (and an emergency Air Force One stop) raised everyone's hopes, it seems we're back where we started: wishing, hoping, and praying for an end to the madness we're currently living through.
It should have been a turning point many, many years ago when we learned the same thing with Jeff Astle and not much has happened between that time and now. Hopefully, my dad's legacy will not just be what he gave football on the pitch but what we can learn from this and make sure that this really horrible problem isn't a problem for future generations.
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Dementia is linked to changes in the brain. Health professionals used to assume that brain damage and dementia symptoms always went hand in hand. More recent research, however, shows that some people have significant brain damage yet never develop dementia. How can that be? In a previous post, I shared that dementia is defined by the inability to function in everyday life, such as getting lost in familiar places, having difficulty managing finances, forgetting to turn off the stove, or struggling with basic tasks.
Aumens introduces a wooden compass with a single red arrow to help lead people with dementia safely to their homes. Activating automatically when picked up and turning off when placed down, the device has no power button to remember, no startup sequence, and no confirmation screen. Movement here becomes the interface, and this design choice removes one of the most common failure points in assistive devices: forgetting to turn them on.
But back to New York: the mix of nostalgia, pace and emotional honesty that the actors allude to during our chat sits at the heart of The Best You Can. Sedgwick plays Cynthia, a tightly wound New York urologist whose world turns upside-down as her husband starts showing signs of dementia. Bacon's character, Stan-a home security guard estranged from his daughter-stumbles into her life after a late-night break-in, an encounter that sparks an unexpected mid-life connection.
Peo­ple suf­fer­ing from demen­tia lose their abil­i­ty to take an active part in con­ver­sa­tions, every­day activ­i­ties, and their own phys­i­cal upkeep. They are prone to sud­den mood swings, irri­tabil­i­ty, depres­sion, and anx­i­ety. They may be strick­en with delu­sions and wild hal­lu­ci­na­tions. All of these things can be under­stand­ably upset­ting to friends and fam­i­lies. There's a lot of stig­ma sur­round­ing this sit­u­a­tion.
Brodie earned his degree in photography from Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Rooted in personal and cultural experiences, Brodie's work explores identity, texture, and emotion through both still and moving images. He is also the co-founder of Forgotten Lands, an independent publisher dedicated to authentic Caribbean art, culture, and dialogue. Brodie began this series in 2020. It focuses on long-overlooked health diagnoses within his own family, specifically his father's dementia and the passing of his eldest and only sister.
This spring we suddenly had to move my in-laws to assisted living. My mother-in-law's dementia was spiraling, and we discovered my father-in-law also has something similar. They had done a good job covering up what a mess their lives had become the past few years, and now we're slowly unspooling it. Dear Not Thinking Clearly, My husband has power of attorney, both financial and medical. We're through all the medical hoops, and I'm now looking at their finances.
Perhaps second only to the fear of death itself, the one thing I've heard business leaders admit that they fear most is the idea of losing their memory. And that's why I've latched on with gusto to a recent study out of Harvard University, among other institutions, that suggests a simple, straightforward way to improve cognitive health. A Mediterranean-style diet
Ms Sedgwick completed the distance from Battersea Park to Boscombe in five days to meet her grandad, Ivor, at his favourite spot on the beach. The 85-year-old, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2023, used to be a running coach but his worsening condition means he now lives in a care home with his wife, Janet. Ms Sedgwick, 28, started her challenge on 2 October, running nearly seven hours each day to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society.
She said the inclusion of dementia is particularly significant for lower-income countries, many of which are still in "denial" about the condition. Even in high-income countries where dementia gets attention, like the U.S., it has been a struggle to bring about the behavioral changes and medical interventions such as weight loss and better blood pressure control that could delay the onset of the condition. And, for many families dealing with dementia, finding adequate care and support is far from easy.
There are many sources of vision loss, of course, but it tends to be a lot more common in folks who have metabolic risk factors such as high blood pressure, such as poorly controlled diabetes, such as high cholesterol, which is the other risk factor [identified in the report],
Dementia is an umbrella term for conditions that lead to a decline in cognitive function. Some kinds have been linked to poor waste removal from the brain. Any time we perform a task, the area of the brain responsible for that task needs more blood, says Carare. That forces the blood vessels to open up and feed the brain. When they do, they also help clear waste. For both processes to work, the vessel walls need to be flexible.
Detectives found that a nursing home employee checked on Smirnova and Kravtsov at 8:55 p.m. that night, where Kravtsov was seen sleeping in her bed. An hour later, the employee checked on the room again, where Kravtsov was still in her bed, but this time covered in blood "with gash marks about her face and head." Meanwhile, Smirnova was discovered washing her hands in the bathroom. Her shirt was covered in blood. The employee further noted that a wheelchair inside the room was missing its foot pedals. One pedal was found outside on the ground under a window. The other was on inside the room covered in blood.
Sometimes, the symptoms occur quite late into the evening, said Dr. Victor Diaz, a neurologist at Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute. Approximately 1 in 5 people with dementia experience sundowning. It affects people with different forms of dementia, like Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, Diaz said. "Episodes can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, and in some cases, can extend into the night."
