Understanding the Changing Brain: A Positive Approach to Dementia Care by Teepa Snow

How to spot early indicators that your loved one may have Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Most people owe some debt when they die. For example, when someone suffers a serious accident or chronic illness, they incur medical bills up until the time they pass.

There's no question that a healthy relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is a wonderful thing.

On his 68th birthday, Kevin Kelly began to write down for his young adult children some things he had learned about life that he wished he had known earlier.

Many folks may think that people can start collecting their full Social Security benefits at age 65, which was the retirement age for decades. But Congress changed that as part of its 1983 overhaul of the entitlement program.

In the last twenty years, the amount of seniors taking medication in America has nearly tripled.

Affecting more than 6.5 million Americans alone, Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out simple tasks.

Family caregiving is often called ''the other midlife crisis.'' Since I myself am an Adult Child (and not yet an Older Adult), I do tend to empathize with my own generation's struggle with this reality.

Malnutrition is more something you are likely to consider as a third-world problem or a result of unhealthy eating habits than a regular issue, but the truth is that one of the most nutritionally deficient groups in this country is actually the elderly.