Uncooperative Parent Doesn ’t Want To Work With Physical Therapist
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Dear Carol: My mother, 93, is mentally sharp and lives in her own retirement apartment. As would be expected, she has some physical problems, including arthritis severe enough that she needed a hip replacement in her 80s. She uses a walker but her balance is iffy even with that. I’d like her to have physical therapy to help her improve her balance because of the risk of falling. I’ve communicated with a doctor and she said that we could have a therapist come to the apartment twice a week, but Mom refuses. She takes little medication so there’s nothing detrimental that I can see that we can ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 5, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 6th 2020
Conclusion
A great deal of progress is being made in the matter of treating aging: in advocacy, in funding, in the research and development. It can never be enough, and it can never be fast enough, given the enormous cost in suffering and lost lives. The longevity industry is really only just getting started in the grand scheme of things: it looks vast to those of us who followed the slow, halting progress in aging research that was the state of things a decade or two ago. But it is still tiny compared to the rest of the medical industry, and it remains the case that there is a great deal of work yet to be done at all...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2019: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Conclusion
A great deal of progress is being made in the matter of treating aging: in advocacy, in funding, in the research and development. It can never be enough, and it can never be fast enough, given the enormous cost in suffering and lost lives. The longevity industry is really only just getting started in the grand scheme of things: it looks vast to those of us who followed the slow, halting progress in aging research that was the state of things a decade or two ago. But it is still tiny compared to the rest of the medical industry, and it remains the case that there is a great deal of work yet to be done at all...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
A new look at steroid injections for knee and hip osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a common and potentially debilitating condition. It’s a degenerative joint disease (often called the “wear-and-tear” type) in which the smooth lining of cartilage becomes thinned and uneven, exposing the bone beneath.
Although osteoarthritis is tightly linked with aging, we now know there is more to it than age alone: genetics, weight, physical activity, and a number of other factors can conspire to make it more likely that someone will develop osteoarthritis while someone else won’t. Osteoarthritis is the primary reason that more than a million joints (mostly hips and knees) are replaced each yea...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Arthritis Osteoarthritis Pain Management Source Type: blogs
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““My mother is quite vain about looking young, but arthritis has made her knees and hips painful. She’s supposed to use a walker, but she refuses because she says it makes her look old. How do I convince her that this is for her safety?”
I can’t count the number of times readers have written to me with this or a similar question. I usually tell them to stop nagging but to make it clear that a fall could mean the end of the older adult’s mobility, and a wheelchair would be much less convenient than a walker.
Now, I may have to rethink that advice. It’s still sound, in that using a walker or ro...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 19, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 16th 2019
This study shows that CA are released from periventricular and subpial regions to the cerebrospinal fluid and are present in the cervical lymph nodes, into which cerebrospinal fluid drains through the meningeal lymphatic system. We also show that CA can be phagocytosed by macrophages. We conclude that CA can act as containers that remove waste products from the brain and may be involved in a mechanism that cleans the brain. Moreover, we postulate that CA may contribute in some autoimmune brain diseases, exporting brain substances that interact with the immune system, and hypothesize that CA may contain brain markers that m...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weight loss surgery for children and teens struggling with obesity
Right now, one in 12 children and adolescents in the US are severely obese. If that isn’t startling enough, consider this: among 12-to-15-year-olds, that number jumps to one in 10 — and among 16-to-19-year-olds, it is one in seven. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the best hope for many of these youths may be bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is surgery that helps with weight loss by making the stomach smaller and making other changes in the digestive system.
It’s jarring to think about doing irreversible surgery on an adolescent — or a child, as the AAP discourages age limits for bariatric...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Diabetes Diet and Weight Loss Parenting Source Type: blogs
Ways in Which the Failing Lymphatic System Contributes to Age-Related Disease
The lymphatic system is a parallel circulatory system responsible for moving fluid, immune cells, and a range of vital molecules around the body. It is of particular importance to immune function, allowing components of the immune system to carry messages from place to place in the body, and communicate and coordinate the immune response at the hubs known as lymph nodes. Like all tissues in the body, the lymphatic system is negatively impacted by aging, and this has widespread detrimental effects throughout the body and brain.
For example, lymph nodes become disrupted in structure and function by the presence of sen...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Holiday Gift Ideas for our Older Adults and People Living With Dementia
As people age, they generally become hard to buy gifts for, often because they are in the process of weeding through their belongings and need so little. Also, many have issues with their health ranging from arthritic pain to cognitive disorders which influence what they can use. Still, we want to include them in holiday giving. What to do? Here are some practical, but still enjoyable, ideas. (Prices are not included, as some products may vary depending on the retailer you choose.)
Continue reading on HealthCentral to learn more about possible gifts for older adults in your life as well as someone who lives with dementia.
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Source: Minding Our Elders - November 29, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Carl ’ s Wheat Belly Thanksgiving wishes
I am struck by how many people have weighed into Wheat Belly social media with expressions of gratitude: gratefulness for finally having found a sustainable way to lose and maintain weight loss, of not struggling with hunger, of having magnificent health restored, of being freed of pain and prescription medications, of rediscovering feelings of empathy and connectedness to other people.
Carl shared his wonderful Wheat Belly experience detailing his health and life transformation:
“Feeling thankful.
“July 2017 248 lbs and November 2019 178 lbs.
“Although I lost most of the weight using a different WOE (cal...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 28, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open grain-free Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 25th 2019
This study demonstrates for the first time that senescent cells secrete functional LTs, significantly contributing to the LTs pool known to cause or exacerbate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Against Senolytics
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/against-senolytics/
There is no consensus in science that is so strong as to have no heretics. So here we have an interview with a naysayer on the matter of senolytic treatments, who argues that the loss of senescent cells in aged tissues will cause more harm to long-term health than the damage they will do by remaining. To be clear, I think this to be a...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Harvard Health Ad Watch: A fibromyalgia treatment ( “But you look so good!”)
It’s something I’ve heard countless times from patients with fibromyalgia. They’re telling a friend or family member about their condition and the response is, “But you don’t look sick” or “But you look so well.” Sometimes, the reaction is more of an eye roll or some other response that reflects skepticism that the problem is even “real.”
Those are issues addressed head-on in a TV ad for Lyrica (pregabalin), a treatment for fibromyalgia. “To most people, I look like most people,” a woman says. “But on the inside I feel chronic, widespread pain.” After clarifying that the pain is real, this direc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Arthritis Bones and joints Fatigue Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Kimberly ’ s Two-Month Wheat BellyTransformation
Look at Kimberly’s dramatic transformation in appearance after just two months on the Wheat Belly lifestyle: the lateral dimensions of her face are reduced, her cheeks are no longer bloated, the around-the-eye swelling is gone and her eyes are bigger. She lost “only” 20 pounds but, judging by the “deflation” of her facial features, it looks more like 100 pounds—this is what happens when you reverse the body-wide inflammation caused by wheat/grain consumption.
“I didn’t recognize myself! This side-by-side spoke volumes! I’ve lost about 20 pounds so far. I was 237, no...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 21, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Cellular Senescence May Contribute to Rheumatoid Arthritis in Younger Patients
Senescent cells are a cause of aging, and much of the present focus in the study of cellular senescence is thus on targeting and destroying these unwanted cells in order to treat aging. However, a comparatively recent and intriguing finding is that at least some autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, involve cellular senescence. The question at present is whether or not this true for all forms of autoimmunity.
An autoimmune condition must have a trigger, something that prompts the immune system to attack healthy tissues, and it is possible that many different triggers converge on the generation of senescent c...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Episode 56 Intro | TAPP Radio Preview
A brief preview of the upcoming full episode, featuring upcoming topics (macrophages in joints, sugared RNA, lab models, and more on scoring misspellings) —plus word dissections, a book club recommendation (The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools), and more!00:19 | Topics01:24 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program01:53 | Word Dissection18:36 | Sponsored by HAPS18:57 | Book Club21:00 | Sponsored by AAA21:16 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. Questions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwit...
Source: The A and P Professor - November 14, 2019 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
