At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play.
“Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at the piano, she just wasn’t frail at all. She was full of verve.”
Read the full article at New Scientist.
For all the virtues of popular culture reflecting the potential of a multigenerational society, there is much we can do to foster mutually-beneficial, cross-generational relationships.
Read the full article at Harvard Business Review.
Boomers tap into the power of the arts to change how we age.
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A RENOWNED MIT aging scientist as cofounder. Not one, not two, but six Nobel prize laureates as scientific advisors. Oh, and a product that could just maybe help you stay feeling young. It’s no wonder the dietary supplement company Elysium has attracted attention in an industry not exactly known for scientific rigor. And while Elysium is careful to tout “cellular health” rather than explicit claims about anti-aging—the company’s image is all about scientific rigor—headlines have been quicker to make the leap.
Read the full article at Wired.
Americans seem very afraid of cancer, with good reason. Unlike other things that kill us, it often seems to come out of nowhere.
But evidence has increasingly accumulated that cancer may be preventable, too. Unfortunately, this has inflamed as much as it has assuaged people’s fears.
Read the full article at The New York Times.
Weight management is challenging in our “middle-age” years. Whether because of genetics, aging, hormones, lifestyle, or “life changes,” it is tough for many to lose weight and harder to keep from re-gaining it in these years. While many men deal with similar issues, women face the additional mid-life challenge of menopause. Is mid-life weight gain inevitable, permanent, irreversible? Or are some of the factors temporary and can be better managed? To learn more, BeWell spoke with Marcia Stefanick, PhD, professor of medicine and obstetrics/gynecology at Stanford Medicine.
Read the full article at BeWell@Stanford.
Bloomberg’s Michael McKee examines the issues of stagnant wages and an aging labor force around the world in a preview of today’s conversation with former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan.
See video at Bloomberg.
Baby boomers closing in on the traditional retirement years often seek purpose and a paycheck in a second career, also known as an encore experience, next chapter or unretirement. Whatever the term, nonprofit work — focused on addressing society’s pressing needs and promoting arts and culture — has a particular allure for many in this group.
“People want to give back; they want that social impact in the next phase of their life,” said Kate Schaefers, a career and leadership coach in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. “They also turn the three-legged retirement stool — Social Security, personal savings and retirement savings — into a four-legged stool by adding paid work.”
Read the full article at The New York Times.
A cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a condition marked by progressive, debilitating cognitive decline that affects more than million Americans, is the holy grail in disease research. One expert, Dr. Dale Bredesen, a professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a professor at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at UCLA, thinks he might have found a way to reverse memory loss, a hallmark of the disease.
Read the full article at CBS News.
“Of all the things we as physicians can recommend for health, few provide as much benefit as physical activity.”
Read the full article at The New York Times.