December 6, 2023
Cher has revealed the age she’d go back to if she could “turn back time,” and it’s probably not what you were expecting. In a new interview with the “Today” show, the pop star got candid about the realities of aging while discussing the 25th anniversary of her 1998 hit song, “Believe.” As other celebrities
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Rising rates of suicide among older adults drove the number of such deaths to a historic high in the United States last year, even as suicide declined among youth, according to a report released Wednesday by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 49,000 people died by suicide in 2022 across
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Young drivers must be a certain age to get a license — but it’s less clear when older adults should hang up the keys. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of motor vehicle deaths involving adults 65 and older rose by 15%, exceeding 8,200 fatalities, according to data from the National Safety Council. Tina Paff,
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Caregiving was associated with a lower risk of death in older women in the U.S., according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. “Our hypothesis is that caregiving might provide a sense of purpose and/or fulfillment of sociocultural-related responsibility to family, as well as potentially enhancing aging resiliency factors
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Some patients who have to spend a night in the emergency room before being admitted to the hospital may face a higher risk of dying there, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers in France assessed statistics from 97 different emergency departments across the country between Dec. 12-14, 2022, focusing on patients
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On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Middle East tensions playing out in the west, protests, Remembrance Day, Richard Marles, and more. Sky News host Paul Murray says ageism is something not many people speak about but older Australians are suffering as a result of abuse. “Of all of
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Yves here. When I was involved in my mother’s care in the last few years of her life, it was depressing but also revealing to see how often the default among doctors was “She’s over 90, what do you expect?” when even at her age, there were therapies, particularly exercise, that would improve her quality
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Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal has offered refreshing takes on reality over the course of the year and had another bit of wisdom on social media on Tuesday. The former Los Angeles Lakers star took to X and talked about what he’s realized more as he’s gotten older. The post received more than 3
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Archeologists have found that Indonesia‘s pyramid, a 98-ft-deep ‘megalith’ submerged within a hill of lava rock, ranks as the world’s oldest pyramid. Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch explorers in 1890, may in fact also be the oldest known man-made construction of its size, at least, according to the latest radiocarbon dating of the ancient site. The
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Despite being Earth’s closest celestial companion, there has long been doubt over how and when the moon formed. Now there is evidence the moon is 40 million years older than scientists previously believed. The most widely accepted explanation of why the moon exists is the ‘giant-impact theory’, suggesting that a Mars-sized planet smashed into the
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