GotoRetirement.com recently provided an update of national and local cost trends for long term care policies written by Genworth Financial, a long term care insurance provider. For more data/detail,...

The following highlights are from a 90-year Stanford University study of 1500 children regarding what characteristics led to a happy, healthy, and long life.  Continually productive people...

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First, there's dirt.Aviva Presser Aiden of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has developed a phone charger that gets it power from microbes in soil. It turns out that soil...

Road Scholar, (division of Elderhostel) develops programs for individuals in their 50’s – 80’s. Each trip has a docent/instructor who is with you every minute of the trip. The...

Why not house sit somewhere that you would like to travel. You might have to pay utilities and pre-pay a security deposit to assure the homeowner that any damage done will be covered, but in most...

Since the recession senior discounts have become a thing of the past. That said if you have an open schedule deals can be found on Orbitz, Expedia, Hotwire, Priceline and Travelocity where you bid on...

If you like returning to one particular destination each and every year, go to Craigslist or the reputable agency TimeSharing Today and save up to 67% over the cost of buying the same timeshare from...

Researchers reported in the Journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology that refillable soap dispensers have a high rate of bacterial infection. The researchers went to a nearby elementary school...

Ohio State University scientists split mice into two groups – one had traditional environment of a few mice to a cage, and the second a challenging crowded environment with multiple sources of...

It is no longer necessary to breath for another during CPR to save their life. In fact the time you spend breathing is time you aren’t pushing on the chest which has been found to be more...

PLX4032 according to Allen Halpern, MD, Chief of Dermatology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shrank tumors by 81% in advanced melanoma patients (20% typically respond to current...

Robert Wachter, MD and chief of hospital medicine at the University of California, San Francisco says a recent study supports that more than 1 in 300 women and 1 in 600 men who undergo a single...

It is no longer smart to hide one’s emotions. Even though people are beginning to understand more and more how emotions affect our health, research results from the 1990’s shows it was...

Research is now suggesting that the middle-aged mind preserves many of its youthful skills and even develops new strengths. They found that the middle-aged mind not only maintains youthful abilities...

April 6. 2011 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience published the recent results of research that shows an hour of meditation instruction on focused attention reduced pain intensity by about 40% and...

Researchers at Mass General in Boston and University of Mass Medical School in Worcester documented brain changes occurring over time in people learning how to pay attention to what a person...

In a laboratory tucked away off a noisy New York City street, a soft-spoken neuroscientist has been placing Tibetan Buddhist monks into a car-sized brain scanner to better understand the ancient...

With the recession many residents of continuing-care developments are receiving some unexpected news. The promises of lifetime care are not being met because the developers are faltering...

Being diagnosed with a chronic illness involves the loss of one’s identity and there is grief that comes with the loss. The intensity of emotional pain usually corresponds to how much your...