Grandma too!
Source: An increasing proportion of women who are 60 years of age and older are drinking — ScienceDaily
older age
Delaying Retirement Could Benefit Your Health
Staying engaged in life
All of this squares with the experience of Claudia Landau, M.D., Ph.D., chief of geriatrics and palliative care at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif, and an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.
Early in her career she remembers working with a group of World War I veterans, all over the age of 90. Asked to account for their longevity and relatively good health, they cited a common reason: a desire to learn and stay engaged with life. One of them had just started to study Japanese.
“When people feel more engaged and involved, they have more motivation to do other things that will keep them well,” Landau says. Those can include physical exercise, paying attention to their diet, and simply getting out of the house more.
You may already have a sense of purpose in life, but if not, retirement, and the flexibility it provides, offers a wealth of possibilities. And it might pay to pick several of them. In Landau’s experience, “people who develop multiple ways of engaging with the world do the best,” she says.
Contemporary Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Older Adults Clinical Perspective | Circulation
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that left ventricular longitudinal relaxation velocity declines as a part of healthy aging and is largely prognostically benign. The use of age-based normative values when considering an elderly population improves the risk discrimination of diastolic measures for incident HF or death.
Prognostically benign!
Emergency Medicine Clinics, August 2016, Volume 34, Issue 3 – Geriatric Emergencies
Rather than link each individual article separately I’ve provided a link to the table of contents for this collection on geriatric emergencies.
What underwriter wouldn’t get excited about Evaluation of Syncope in Older Adults. This is exciting stuff!
Prediction of 90-day mortality in older patients after discharge from an emergency department: a retrospective follow-up study – BMC Emergency Medicine
Doctors Get Less Aggressive Care Before Death | Medpage Today
Fewer in-hospital deaths, less surgery in last 6 months
Source: Doctors Get Less Aggressive Care Before Death | Medpage Today
A Little Exercise Goes a Long Way for Older Adults | Medpage Today
A Little Exercise Goes a Long Way for Older Adults | Medpage Today.
“This protective effect appears dose-dependent and is already significant for a low dose of moderate to vigorous physical activity (or about 15 min per day), which is below current recommendations for older adults,” they stated. “These results can guide future recommendations for older adults and may improve adherence to regular physical activity programs and thus their global health.”
Some good news about getting older!
Treating Asthma in Older Women | Physician’s Weekly
Among older individuals, women are significantly more likely than men to report having asthma and also have a 30% higher asthma-related mortality rate. In addition, women are nearly twice as likely to visit the emergency department for asthma when compared with men. Older women have been shown to have the highest hospitalization rates among all people with asthma (Figure). “However, little is known regarding why older women are more likely to suffer from the adverse events of asthma,” says Alan P. Baptist, MD, MPH. To better understand the specific issues that are unique to older women with asthma, Dr. Baptist and colleagues conducted a literature review and published their findings in Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology.
Older Americans Need Protein to Keep Muscles Strong, Study Says – MedicineNet
Protein should come from animal and plant sources, since each type of protein appears to play different roles in maintaining lean muscle mass and leg strength. Plant protein helps preserve muscle strength, while animal protein is linked to muscle mass, the researchers said.
via Older Americans Need Protein to Keep Muscles Strong, Study Says – MedicineNet.
Hmmm….
Even Light Activity Can Boost Seniors’ Health – MedicineNet
Even Light Activity Can Boost Seniors’ Health – MedicineNet.
It really is amusing the stuff that grabs your attention the older you get.
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