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Boomers' Health...complete coverage of
developments, trends, tips to maintain a healthy lifestyle, protect health.
Aging in the 21st Century: Longer Lives Can
Still Lead to Happier Golden Years...
As more people live well into their 80s and 90s, it’s reassuring to know
that most people get happier as they age and exert more emotional control
than younger adults, according to researchers who spoke at the 117th Annual
Convention of the American Psychological Association...(more)
Physical
inactivity poses greatest Health Risk to Americans As many as
50 million Americans are living sedentary lives, putting them at increased
risk of health problems and even early death, a leading expert in exercise
science told the American Psychological Association today. ..Speaking at APA’s
117th Annual Convention, Steven Blair, PED, called Americans’ physical
inactivity “the biggest public health problem of the 21st century.”...(more)
Aging Baby Boomers enlarge potential customer base for the Cardiac Device
markets...An
increasing demand for minimally invasive surgeries amongst the rapidly aging
population is expected to spark further growth in the cardiovascular devices
market. Moreover, the cost efficiencies offered by lesser invasive methods
expect to garner much favor amongst the healthcare payers as well...(more)
At least through their mid-60s, people at genetic risk for Alzheimer’s age
mentally just like non-carriers...Australian researchers say that a genotype that heightens the
risk for Alzheimer’s disease does
not contribute to cognitive change during most of adulthood. The largest
study of its kind has found that carriers and non-carriers show the same
type and extent of normal age-related cognitive declines, decades before
carriers start to more often develop symptoms of dementia. The findings
suggest that the higher-risk genotype acts only in later years to layer
disease on top of normal aging...(more)
Group
Health Insurance Demographic is "Graying"...
The
population in group health private insurance is becoming older and wealthier
at a rate greater than the population overall, which could add pressure to
an already strained health insurance system, according to a Yale School of
Public Health study..(more)
Depression and heart attacks, it's important to recover emotionally...After a heart attack, fear, anger and depression are common
reactions. According to the January issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource, recovering emotionally from a heart attack is vitally
important to your physical health and well-being...(more)
