April 12, 2021- My Top Secret for Alzheimer’s Prevention
This week, I want to share with you ladies my secret for Alzheimer’s prevention.
Better yet, this secret will benefit many areas of your life, including improving sleep and reducing stress.
April 19, 2021 – Your Anxiety Is Contributing to Your … [Read More ...]
My goals as a gerontologist are to empower, educate, and energize women using great information backed up by sound science. We deserve to be the masters of our health and our destiny. Obviously, we have merited that unique focus all along, but thank goodness society is finally catching up. We … [Read More ...]
Falling counts as one of the things we most fear as we get older. In fact, this fear, if we let it, can drastically shrink our activities and the breadth of our lives. Can balance be improved even in the elderly? Yes! Here’s the good news: simple and fun ways … [Read More ...]
We all know the saying, silence is golden, a belief expressed throughout history. It’s also the title of a 1964 mega-hit recording by Frankie Valli. However, for today’s world, I think the phrase needs an upgrade to platinum.
Over the last few decades, in the US, and across the … [Read More ...]
You read that correctly. In women over 55, our level of anxiety, and depression, scientists now believe contributes to an increased risk of and/or a worsening of fractures from osteoporosis. This becomes especially true if you already suffer from this most common of bone diseases. Let’s unpack this new research … [Read More ...]
January 4th 2021 – Sharing Our Wisdom With The Next Generation
We have the opportunity as wise and vibrantly aging women to share our wisdom with our daughters and even our granddaughters. The positive choices that they make today, will positively affect their future selves. No matter at what age … [Read More ...]
When the world grows wearies, and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the Garden.
Minnie Aumônier
This quotation about gardening has lived under the glass on my desk for as long as I can remember. Decades before I became a gerontologist and learned that gardening is good for you—physically, … [Read More ...]
So many accomplished, extraordinary women are being highlighted during Women’s History Month. I would like to offer three of my favorite vibrant women who are often overlooked, but are equally as interesting and worth remembering. Take note, they all lived very long lives, busy and contributing until their very last … [Read More ...]
If you are like I am, this is a familiar scenario: too often, I put everyone and everything before myself—taking care of work issues, family issues, house issues, pet issues. If any time remains before collapsing into bed, I might read for a few minutes or look at a catalog … [Read More ...]
Not long ago the last of my parents’ siblings, my father’s youngest sister, passed away. In the moment of her passing, I joined, like many others, the oldest generation alive– the senior generation of our family. This is a new sensation for me. My “elders” are all now gone, and … [Read More ...]
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