Playing Through Pain: Remembering Neil Peart, 1952–2020 by Jude Joseph Lovell “Changes aren’t permanent,” wrote Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist of the legendary Canadian rock trio Rush, “but change is.” Here in this new year, Rush fans around the globe now face one change that unfortunately is perm... Read more
Reading Aloud to Seniors: Top 10 Tips by Lucy E.M. Black Several years ago, when a family member was hospitalized and in a great deal of pain, I was striving to find something that would comfort her. In desperation, I picked up a Gideon Bible and began to read aloud from the Psalms. Occasionally she... Read more
Oh for Cow’s Sake: Drink Milk A new study by Dr. Larry Tucker (Brigham Young University) found that adults who consumed skim and 1-percent low-fat milk had also experienced ‘several years less biological aging’ when compared to people who consumed two-percent or whole milk. The study involved more t... Read more
Beating the Big C By D’Cai Rhodes I’ve been a terrible sister and aunt. Now others will tell you that’s not true, but it’s how I feel at the moment. I knew my sister Niece (a family nickname) and her daughter Chelsi were sick with cancer, and I ran—from fear, from dread, from the unknown. Read more
Oral Sex: Is it Better to Give or Receive? Tracy E. Hill, Ph.D. With funding from the National Institute on Aging, researchers from Michigan State and Texas A & M Universities took a deep dive into oral sex. Published in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences (2019), Drs. Hui Liu, Shannon ... Read more
Did you know that married couples are less likely to develop dementia than other adults? According to Drs. Liu, Zhang, Choi and Langa, all unmarried groups of people (i.e., divorced, widowed, single, etc.) had significantly higher odds of developing dementia than their married friends. The researche... Read more
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