Hearing Loss Helping People Adjust to Hearing Aids By article When older adults wear their hearing aids for the first time, they are flooded with sounds they havenΓÇÖt heard in … Read More→
Aging Well Senior Health Preventing Unnecessary Hospitalizations of Frail Older Adults By article A study from Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute researcher-clinicians reports on the first year of the implementation of OPTIMISTIC, an … Read More→
Senior Health Mature Motorists Worse at Texting and Driving By Jane Farrell article A Wayne State University interdisciplinary research team in Detroit has made a surprising discovery: older, more mature motorists, who typically … Read More→
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Healthy Diet & Nutrition Senior Health Half of Elderly People Are Happy to Try New Foods By Jane Farrell article Elderly people are regarded as traditional consumers, but a study done by AZTI: The Safe Consortium in Spain found that … Read More→
_ Aging Well Senior Health A Newly Discovered Culprit in Aging By Jane Farrell article Researchers have zeroed in on a protein, found in both humans and insects, that plays a key part in systemic … Read More→
Senior Health Older Trauma Patients Would Benefit from Palliative Care By Jane Farrell article Half of older adults who sustain injuries severe enough that they could die in the hospital or become unable to … Read More→
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