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#older-adults

After 47 years in the basement of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, the Bay Ridge Center for older adults is breaking (above) new ground.A new 21,000-square-foot facility at 15 Bay Ridge Ave. is earmarked to open this fall when interior works are completed, tripling the BRC's space and capacity to offer services to a growing senior population that has outgrown the 4,700-square-foot basement facility.

Virtual Reality an 'Exciting Opportunity' for Geriatric Psychiatry Virtual reality to deliver immersive and engaging interventions to seniors with depression, loneliness, and other psychiatric disorders is "an exciting opportunity" for the field, researchers say.Medscape Medical News, Apr 27, 2022 Aducanumab and ARIA: Does the FDA's Prescribing Label Fall Short?

More than three years into the pandemic, an overwhelming majority of Americans have some level of COVID-19 antibodies circulating in their bodies, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found in a new report.With the help of blood-donation centers, CDC scientists analyzed data from blood samples of about 143,000 Americans ages 16 and older from July through September 2022 and found that 96% of them contained antibodies to SARS-CoV-2.

Q: If I get less than the recommended seven or eight hours of sleep every night, will a midday nap make up for that loss?Maybe you stayed up too late scrolling TikTok, or tossed and turned because of anxious thoughts.And now you're wondering if a quick lunchtime nap will give you the energy boost you need to power through the rest of the day, and potentially regain the health benefits of a full night's sleep you may have lost.

When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem.All that chatter that is in my head, everything that I've been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking, he said, recalling his thoughts at the time.Back then, he was struggling with depression and had been relying on a number of things to keep it at bay, including running, therapy, medication and his faith.

The COVID-19 pandemic may not have been as damaging to people's mental health as once thought, a new study indicates.Overall, the pandemic caused minimal changes in depression, anxiety, and mental health symptoms among the general population compared to times before the pandemic.The study published in the British Medical Journal was led by researchers at McGill University, Canada, and included data from 137 other studies from around the world.

The first-ever vaccine protecting babies from RSV, a respiratory virus that can cause severe symptoms among young children, is now up for federal approval, the manufacturer Pfizer said Tuesday.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a decision this August after agreeing to review Pfizer's maternal vaccine, which would be administered to pregnant patients in order to immunize their fetuses before birth, according to the announcement.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration would like to see healthy adults get routine annual COVID shots, just as they do for flu.The goal is to get more people protected by simplifying the process, eliminating the clutter of immunization cards with multiple entries and the need to keep track of a flurry of jabs.

Regarding your May 19, 2023, column titled Homeowner ready to move and help the next generation on The Mercury News and East Bay Times websites: Question: We would like to move to Shasta County near our grandchildren.However, paying all that capital gains tax on our three-bedroom Silicon Valley home of 40 years is off-putting.

AstraZeneca Plc's and Sanofi's drug to prevent respiratory syncytial virus won support from a U.S. regulatory panel for use in infants, potentially adding to a group of breakthrough products set to reach pharmacy shelves this year.The 21 advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Thursday to endorse the medicine for newborns and infants, calling the treatment's safety profile compelling.

Paul Hult's problems began about a year and a half ago, when he tripped and fell in the little Hollywood bungalow he has lived in since the 1950s."I got bruised," said the 102-year-old U.S. Army veteran, a cryptologist whose job was to crack enemy codes while stationed in Northern Africa and Europe during World War II.

Susan Tilton's husband, Mike, was actually in good health.But after a friend's husband developed terminal cancer, she began to worry that Mike would soon die, too.At night, I'd lie down and start thinking about it, recalled Ms. Tilton, 72, who lives in Clayton, Mo.What would I do?What would I do?The thought of life without her husband they'd married at 17 and 18 left her sleepless and dragging through the next day.

Playing golf may be just as good or better than Nordic walking for older people, a small study suggests.Nordic walking involves using a specific technique which uses the power of the upper body and walking poles to provide a more vigorous workout than just walking.But a new study, published online in the journal BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, found that rounds of golf may be more likely to provide health benefits.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of a monoclonal antibody shot aimed at preventing a potentially lethal pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., in infants and vulnerable toddlers.The treatment, called Beyfortus by its developers Sanofi and AstraZeneca, would be the second such therapy that the F.D.A. has allowed to be given to very young children to prevent R.S.V., which is a leading killer of infants and toddlers globally.

Residents receive food at the St. Helena Pantry in the Bronx on September 28, 2022, in New York City.Spencer Platt / Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could soon be at risk of losing federal food aid and falling deeper into poverty due to a provision of the new debt ceiling agreement that expands work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a change that comes as food banks across the United States are seeing demand surge.

An independent advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration will decide on Thursday whether to recommend an RSV vaccine for infants.If eventually approved, the shot, which is made by Pfizer and administered to pregnant mothers, would be the first RSV vaccine for infants in the U.S.
"Before the pandemic, RSV was the No. 1 cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, so this is a big deal," said Dr. Ofer Levy, director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's Hospital.

Since 2004, the number of Americans who identify as political independents has skyrocketed.In the first decade of the 21st century, nearly two-thirds of American voters affiliated with one of the two major parties.Now, this figure is less than half, and there are slightly more political "independents" than either Democrats or Republicans.

NEW YORK - Yankees players said that they weren't bothered Tuesday night by the thick smoke and haze in and around Yankee Stadium.A day later, Major League Baseball deemed it too dangerous to play continue their series against the Chicago White Sox.Following a 4 p.m., meeting, Wednesday night's game has been postponed due to unsafe air pollution in New York City from wildfires in Quebec, Canada.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a news release late Tuesday that by 10 p.m. air quality in parts of New York City had become very unhealthy, rising to 218 on the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index.New York's air quality rating briefly ranked as the worst of any city in the world on Tuesday, according to the IQAir World Air Quality Index.

Editor's Note: David Zurawik is a professor of practice in media studies at Goucher College.For three decades, he was a media critic at the Baltimore Sun.The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.View more opinion on CNN.Since Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch's deposition in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit was recently made public, there has been an avalanche of speculation about the effect his words will have on the network.

An unrelenting heat wave will be baking Toronto over the next two days, Environment Canada says.The agency has issued a heat warning for the Toronto area that is expected to last until Friday and is warning it could lead to deteriorating air quality.Temperatures are expected to reach 31 C on both Thursday and Friday, feeling more like 34 C with humidity.

Katherine Goodes has always enjoyed her own company, but at the age of 67 she's going to be moving in with three strangers to help make ends meet.Goodes, who has worked for decades as an editor in the education sector, doesn't have significant savings, her monthly government support cheques barely cover the rent on her apartment in Oshawa and she has no prospect of retiring unless she finds a way to reduce her basic expenses.

(Editor's note: (This post is part of a series by the Diversity Pilots Initiative, which advances inclusive innovation through rigorous research.The first blog in the series is here, and resources from the first conference of the initiative are available here.-Jason) By: Jillian Grennan, Associate Professor of Finance and Principal, Diversity Pilots Initiative Recently, I had the privilege of being part of the Junior Innovation Economics Conference at Harvard Business School.

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Well, as annual swimsuit editions go, this is certainly a departure for Sports Illustrated.The latest cover model served time in federal prison.And she's 81.Martha Stewart seems to have reinvented herself yet again, and it can't be long before she's hawking a new line of perfect bathing suits, if she isn't already, in addition to the perfect cookware, pruning shears and window treatments.

It's easy to spot the tall cranes and distinctive high rises of The Mather in Tysons, as construction crews build out the interior floors of the Life Plan Community for those age 62 and better, which will open in 2024.What is not apparent to the naked eye is The Mather's unique wellness philosophy, which is literally being built into the community.

Crossword puzzles, sudoku, ken-ken - all these games purportedly help keep the mind young and nimble.There's just one drawback to these activities: They're largely solitary.Study after study shows that community is as important to cognitive health as diet and exercise.In fact, isolation can even increase a person's risk for dementia.

Are you ready to make GENuine Connections in the New Year?GENuine Connections, a virtual intergenerational program bringing together Adults 65+ and high school students from across New York City for small group interaction and fun, is now accepting registrations from older adults for the Winter term beginning on January 30.

Licypriya Kangujam holding up a poster in front of COP27, Egypt 2022.(Image: Licypriya Kangujam) Licypriya Kangujam, the 11 year old climate activist.I'm not a celebrity.I'm not a millionaires.I'm just a girl who love and care our planet.Plastic money shop' is an initiative taken by Kangujam to reduce the use of single-use plastic.

It was a regrettable mistake.But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time.Her 80-year-old mother, Harriet Burkel, had fallen at her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, fractured her pelvis and gone to a rehabilitation center to recover.It was only days after the death of Burkel's husband, 82, who had moved into a memory care facility three years earlier.

Pfizer's vaccine to protect newborns from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, by vaccinating their moms late in pregnancy cuts the risk that infants will need to see a doctor or be admitted to the hospital with a moderate to severe infection before 6 months of age, according to a new analysis by government regulators.

Customer experience (CX) platform DISQO released new insights about podcast advertising in its report, Proving the Power of Podcast Ads.DISQO found that forty-five (45%) of daily podcast listeners pay more attention to podcast ads as compared to other mediums.The new report offers timely insights for brands seeking to understand customer experience with sponsorships and other commercial messages in podcasts - actionable knowledge they can use to propel brand and outcomes lift from their podcast ad investments.

But the entire Bay Area is facing a drastic scarcity of affordable care and living accommodations for older adults, making it difficult to find new homes for discharged residents.A total of 41 people have so far been identified as appropriate for discharge.However, only eight alternative placements have been identified for those residents, CEO Roland Pickens said during a recent Board of Supervisors hearing.

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Aerobic exercise helps people with respiratory conditions to alleviate the sensation of breathlessness and achieve higher levels of physical activity.The health benefits of physical activity are well established.It reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and several types of cancer, including breast and kidney cancer.

Young mothers gather with baby carriages in the morning chill and exchange village gossip while waiting to visit a health clinic on a truck.The vehicle's arrival is a big event.For eight months, the village of Levkivka in eastern Ukraine was under occupation by Russian troops, who cut off roughly 300 residents from the outside world.

When it comes to cardiovascular fitness and muscle strength, the adage is true: Use it or lose it.While regular exercise can improve heart health and increase strength and mobility, taking weeks or months off can reverse many of those benefits.That's not to say that rest days are not important.In general, short breaks can help you physically and mentally recharge, but whenever possible, you should avoid extending your time off for too long so that hopping back on the wagon doesn't feel too daunting or miserable.

Moderna's mRNA-based vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus) was effective at preventing disease in older adults, according to preliminary, top-line results of an ongoing phase III clinical trial the company announced Tuesday.Moderna said it will now seek regulatory approval for the vaccine in the first half of this year.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved GSK's vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., for adults who are 60 and older, the company said.The vaccine, to be sold as Arexvy, appears to be the first in the world approved for sale to protect older adults.Image An transmission electron microscopic image of R.S.V.Credit...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The F.D.A. estimates that R.S.V. is associated with 6,000 to 10,000 deaths each year in adults 65 and older and at least 60,000 hospitalizations in that age group.

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The city's Parks and Recreation Board reviewed progress in the ongoing effort to convert the Nash Hernandez building in East Austin into an intergenerational resource and activity center.At the board's April 24 meeting, members of the Intergenerational Resource and Activity Center Advisory Group and facilitator Jacqueline Angel, a professor at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs, updated board members on the implementation of the project.

In 21st-century Britain, there is still a shocking gap between men's and women's pensions.While public discourse has been dominated by the gender pay gap, which has been almost eliminated for women under the age of 40, women remain the poor relations when it comes to financial security in later life.

Tonight, and almost every night, something amazing will happen inside your brain.As you turn off the light switch and fall asleep, you will be switching on the neurological equivalent of a dishwasher deep-clean cycle.First, the activity of billions of brain cells will begin to synchronise, and oscillate between bursts of excitation and rest.

A total of 7.2% of adults in the United States identified as LGBTQ in 2022 a Gallup poll released Wednesday shows.While that's just a small increase from 2021 numbers - 7.1% - the 2022 Gallup data reflects an overall upward trend.In 2012, when the analytics giant began measuring LGBTQ identification, only about 3.5% of adults self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or something other than heterosexual and cisgender (meaning they identify with the sex they were assigned at birth).

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Brooklyn Mourns Death of Doctors Peter Smith, Patricia O'Neill [Eagle]

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Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A warning has been issued over the winter vomiting bug Norovirus as cases remain at very high levels.An average of 551 adult hospital beds in England were occupied last week by patients with diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms, according to NHS data.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Norovirus levels in England remain very high with hospital cases more than double the number for this point last year, new figures show.Most reported cases are among people aged 65 and over, but outbreaks in schools are running above the five-year average and are particularly affecting very young children.

I had just read dozens of offers from readers who wanted to help a 102-year-old World War II veteran pay his outrageous $526 gas bill, for a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood, when I got an email from the Southern California Gas Co.
Was the company writing to offer a price break to the vet?Or maybe to apologize for the heart palpitations felt across Southern California, where millions of homeowners and restaurateurs have been crushed by monthly bills that were double, triple and quadruple normal amounts?

President Joe Biden speaks at the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Washington.Evan Vucci (AP) President Joe Biden wants to increase taxes to boost funding for Medicare and expand the program's ability to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs, according to advance details of his budget proposal being released later this week.

The listeriosis is linked to Les Freres cheese made in Wisconsin People in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have gotten sick One person in Minnesota died and a pregnant woman had a miscarriage The FDA and Minnesota officials are trying to confirm the source A listeria outbreak linked to cheese might have killed one person and sickened four others in four states, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.

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Family-friendly suburb Vancouver, Washington offers many places for kids to dine with their adult chaperones between trips to Sky Zone Trampoline Park or Dizzy Castle.Two new food cart pods just outside of Vancouver - Carts by the Park in Ridgefield and Ashwood Taps & Trucks in Washougal - provide a variety of dining options, as well as outdoor space to play.

Millions of Americans say they regularly turn to medications for help falling or staying asleep, a practice that experts say can be dangerous for their health.A new study found that roughly 8% of US adults reported taking sleep medication every day or most days, with use more common among those who are female, who are older or who have a lower income level.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that there is a possible safety issue with the bivalent Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech but that it is unlikely to represent a true risk.The agency said it continues to recommend that people stay up-to-date with Covid-19 vaccines.

A just-published UC San Diego study says that senior citizen visits to the emergency room for cannabis-related reasons in California have increased by more than 1800% since 2003.There has been a funny footnote to California's 2016 legalization of recreational marijuana use (which did not actually take effect until January 1, 2018): the fastest-growing cannabis use demographic has been senior citizens.

Shanghai is being gripped by China's massive Covid wave, leading to a surge in hospitalizations and crowded funeral homes.Local health officials said last week that up to 70 percent of the city's 26 million residents had been infected, and they expressed confidence that its outbreak had peaked.But many of the city's hospitals are still overcrowded, particularly with older people.