Morning exercise can improve older adults’ decision-making throughout day
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 02, 2019
Here’s information your residents and employees can use: Moderate-intensity exercise in the morning improves cognitive performance, such as decision-making, in older adults throughout the day compared...
Moving more may help older adults maintain memory, study finds
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 18, 2019
Staying active in old age may help memory and thinking, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
$21.8 million study to examine exercise/brain health link in older adults
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 08, 2016
Independent living community residents most likely will be part of a five-year, $21.8 million study of the connection between exercise and memory and brain function as people age, the project’s leader...
Yoga, meditation improve brain fitness: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 11, 2016
Yoga and meditation can offer a simple, safe and low-cost solution for improving brain fitness, according to new research. Combined, they were found to be even more effective than what many consider to...
Lumosity to pay $2 million to settle deceptive advertising charges
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 07, 2016
Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers with unfounded claims that its “brain games” can reduce or delay cognitive impairment...
Social isolation: A serious but under-recognized health risk
By
Cathy Lipton, MD
Jul 28, 2022
How senior living communities can build on pandemic lessons to reduce loneliness.
Health habits’ connection to dementia in the spotlight as new year begins
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 04, 2022
An update to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as news of potential treatments and a finding that “astonished” researchers add up to promising news to start the new...
CDC: 14% of those 75+ have early symptom of Alzheimer’s
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 17, 2018
Fourteen percent of adults aged 75 or more years have subjective cognitive decline, one of the earliest noticeable symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new data from the Centers for Disease...
Protect vision to help protect cognition: study
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 29, 2018
Maintaining good eyesight may help mitigate an age-related decline in cognition, according to a new study in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Aerobic exercise beats mental exercise for brain fitness, researcher says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 18, 2017
If you’d like to help residents keep their brains fit as they age, you may want to focus on aerobic exercise, not “brain games,” suggests Neil Charness, Ph.D., professor of psychology...