image courtesy of shakerplace.org Have you ever marched into a room with purpose, only to stand there cluelessly, wondering why on earth you were there in the first place? Or maybe you've spent countless minutes searching for your glasses, only to find them perched on top of your head. Sound familiar? As we gracefully enter into our boomer years, these ‘senior moments’ can be a regular, albeit frustrating, part of life. But before you resign yourself to a fate of eternal forgetfulness, you...

Combining exercise and blood-pressure monitoring to support heart and brain health. Memory loss is one of the most troubling concerns many baby boomers have about growing older. We may not be able to control every factor connected with dementia, including age, genetics and family history. But new research gives us a practical reason to pay close attention to three risks we can influence: smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes. An NIH-supported study followed 12,409 adults from four...

For generations, retirement was imagined as a time of freedom—an earned chapter filled with leisure, travel, and family. But for many...