While wildfires, floods and earthquakes threaten everyone in their paths, older folks are distinctly more vulnerable, as exemplified by the fact that of the people who died in the recent northern California wildfires, most were over 65 years old.
aging
There are many questionable aging-related products on the market. One of the more recent is TeloYears, a test that supposedly determines your "true age" by measuring the length of a structure on your chromosomes called telomeres.
The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), currently afflicts 5.5 million adults in the United States and is estimated by 2050 to impact 13.8 million (age 65 or older).
Why is this happening?
The prevalence of dementia in the United States significantly declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 8.8% in 2012. A new study by JAMA Internal Medicine
While it's great that people are living longer these days, thanks in large part to great
In yesterday s New York Times
About 7 million Americans have Alzheimer s disease
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