Old age doesn’t mean ‘frail’.
Engaging in cultural activities can stave off depression in old age
If nothing else, at least you’ll have some fun attending!
Stanford students brew 5,000 year old Chinese beer, say it’s fruity and tasty
Can’t spell ‘archaeology’ without ‘alcohol’.
Spanish publisher wins rights to a manuscript no one can — but everyone is dying to — read
So it’s like the opposite of a college textbook, then?
Asthma drug reverses aging in the brain of mice
Science and medicine advances have stretched the life span further than ever. That’s good news, but the quality of life is also important. People live longer now than ever, but they also live longer in sickness and suffering of both body and mind. Concerning the latter, a clear, sharp mind can be a rare thing once you pass a venerable age, but a team at the Paracelsus Medical University in Austria may be on to something. Working with mice, the researchers gave some of the elderly rodents a common drug called Montelukast that’s used to treat asthma in children. To everyone surprise, the old rats started growing new brain cells and performed almost as well as the young in cognitive tests. If only the drug worked on people, too – we might find out soon.
Picturing yourself aging well may change your life
As you probably know (but may very well choose to ignore), ageism is going rampant throughout virtually every civilized country in the world, and this is by no means a casual thing, but it’s quite systematic, regardless of sex. What’s even worse, even old people think the least about themselves in terms of intelligence, competence and overall abilities. It’s hard
