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Cancer/Rationing Favored
Study finds broad support for rationing of some types of Cancer Care...The majority of cancer doctors, patients, and members of the general public support cutting health care costs by refusing to pay for drugs that don’t improve survival or quality of life, according to results of a new study that will be presented by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine. ...(read more)

Seniors' Addictions, Alcohol/Lower Alcohol Limits
Lowering DWI Limit could save lives, says UB Research Professor...-The Federal proposal to lower the DWI blood-alcohol limit would make the standard similar to European nations and Australia, and could save lives, says a University at Buffalo School of Social Work research professor who has studied the effects of impaired driving for more than 25 years...(read more)

Seniors' Safety, Security/Protection Tips for Seniors
Bank of the West offers tips and guidance to protect Seniors from Financial Scams and Elder Abuse...- The Administration on Aging recognizes May as Older Americans Month, and in support, Bank of the West is providing tips and guidance to protect seniors from financial scams and elder abuse... Financial abuse is now the third-most commonly substantiated type of elder abuse in the country...In just two years, the annual financial loss by elder victims has risen 12 percent to an estimated $2.9 billion...(read more)

Seniors' Couples/Relationship Satisfaction
Couples’ Thoughts During Disagreements Affect Relationship Satisfaction...Women are more likely than men to blame their partner, a new study also finds.... People who are unhappy in their romantic relationship spend more time during a disagreement thinking about how angry and frustrated they are, but happy couples coordinate their thoughts so that when one partner has many emotional thoughts, the other has few, according to a new study recently published online in the National Communication Association’s journal, Communication Monographs...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/Restaurant Calories
Individual and Small-Chain Restaurant Meals exceed recommended Daily Calorie Needs... As the restaurant industry prepares to implement new rules requiring chains with 20 or more locations to post calorie content information, the results of a new study suggest that it would be beneficial to public health for all restaurants to provide consumers with the nutritional content of their products...(read more)

Seniors' Mental Health/Depression 'Clocks'
Out of Sync: Body Clocks Altered at Cell Level in Depression... Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity...The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync with the outside world so that it can govern our appetites, sleep, moods and much more...But new research shows that the clock may be broken in the brains of people with depression -- even at the level of the gene activity inside their brain cells...(read more)

End of Life/Spiritual Treatment
Study examines Spiritual Support for Patients with Advanced Cancer... A study by Tracy A. Balboni, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, and colleagues suggests that spiritual care and end-of-life (EoL) discussions by the medical team may be associated with reduced aggressive treatment...(read more)

Skin Cancer/Preventing Skin Cancer Tips
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance shares Six Steps to Preventing Skin Cancer... According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 82,770 Americans will be diagnosed this year with skin cancer, including melanoma. When left untreated, melanoma is the most dangerous and aggressive form of skin cancer, accounting for more than 9,000 of the 12,000-plus skin cancer deaths each year. In observance of May’s Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) has provided tips for prevention and early detection...(read more)

Seniors' Entertainment/Rediscovering Sophie Tucker
Cultural Historian rediscovers Sophie Tucker, an American Icon...In the hit musical Chicago, wannabe vaudeville performer Roxie Hart declares that she will be bigger than Sophie Tucker...Who? That’s exactly the question Lauren Sklaroff, a cultural historian at the University of South Carolina, has spent more than a year working to answer...The cursory answer is that Sophie Tucker was one of the most famous performers in the early 20th century who amassed a career that spanned vaudeville, radio, stage and screen over five decades...(read more)

Environments for Aging/Cognitive Impairment Study
Study examines Cognitive Impairment in Families with exceptional Longevity... A study by Stephanie Cosentino, Ph.D., of Columbia University, New York, and colleagues examines the relationship between families with exceptional longevity and cognitive impairment consistent with Alzheimer disease ...(read more)

Environments for Aging/Health, Fitness Day
National Observance Day is opportunity for Senior Adults to Get Fit...The old adage ‘move it or lose it’ could be the international slogan for the aging population and is important to remember on National Senior Health and Fitness Day on May 29...If you’re of a certain age, this annual observation day could be what motivates you to become more active because it’s never too late to start, according to a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center aging expert...(read more)

Environments for Aging/Tips to Reach 100
Living to 100 – Preparing for Good Health as Life Expectancy Age rises... May is Older Americans Month. Every day more than 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 with expectations of living into their 80s. Their children can easily live to be 100. Geriatric Medicine Specialist Stephen Jones, MD, gives his Top 10 Tips for staying healthy to 100 years old...(read more)

Brain/Key to Aging
Brain Region May Hold Key to Aging... While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body’s “fountain of aging”: the brain region known as the hypothalamus...(read more)

Cognitive Benefits/Video Games Benefit Aging Minds
Want to slow Mental Decay? Play a Video Game... There may be a way for older people to prevent natural aging of their minds, and it could be as simple as playing a video game...That’s according to a study from the University of Iowa, which found that elderly people who played just ten hours of a game priming their mental processing speed and skills delayed declines by as many as seven years in a range of cognitive skills...(read more)

Elderly Driving/Don't Drive with Dog
Driving with the Dog not a good idea for Seniors... Senior drivers who always take a pet in the car are at increased risk for being involved in a motor vehicle collision, said University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers...In a study published in Accident Analysis and Prevention on May 2, 2013, the research team said both overall and at-fault crash rates for drivers 70 years of age or older were higher for those whose pet habitually rode with them...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/Grapes Reduce Heart Failure

Study uncovers mechanism for how Grapes reduce Heart Failure associated with Hypertension... A new study appearing in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry¹ demonstrates that grapes are able to reduce heart failure associated with chronic high blood pressure (hypertension) by increasing the activity of several genes responsible for antioxidant defense in the heart tissue...(read more)

The Virtual Family/History of the Internet
Casting a Cultural Spotlight on History of Internet... The Internet needs to be recognized not only as a technology, but also as a cultural and political formation, argues Stephanie Ricker Schulte in her new book, Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture...(read more)

Seniors' Respiratory/Free Asthma Screenings
Think you may have Allergies or Asthma? Get Screened, for free-More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies and asthma, a number that continues to rise annually. To help children and adults with symptoms of these conditions know if they are at risk, allergists from around the country will conduct the 17th annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program...The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) will offer free screenings throughout the year, especially during the month of May, as a part of National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month...The screenings, sponsored by Teva Respiratory, will be held at about 100 locations throughout the nation...(read more)

Seniors' Finances/Senior Designation Marketing Misleading
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report highlights problems Older Americans have with confusing Financial Advising Industry... The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has published a report highlighting problems with so-called 'senior designation' credentials that many financial advisers use to market their services to older Americans... The Bureau found that there are more than 50 different senior designations that financial advisers use to indicate that they have advanced training or expertise in the financial needs of older consumers... These designations can confuse older consumers, who are already at risk for deception and fraud...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/Why You Can't Eat Just One
Revealing the Scientific Secrets of why people can’t stop after eating one Potato Chip...The scientific secrets underpinning that awful reality about potato chips — eat one and you’re apt to scarf ’em all down — began coming out of the bag  in research presented at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society...(read more)

Brain/Why We Buy Music
The Brain and why we buy music... A new study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time...The study, conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, McGill University and published in the journal Science , pinpoints the specific brain activity that makes new music rewarding and predicts the decision to purchase music...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/'Seeing' Food Flavors
'Seeing' the Flavor of Foods...The eyes sometimes have it, beating out the tongue, nose and brain in the emotional and biochemical balloting that determines the taste and allure of food says a scientist speaking at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, as he described how people sometimes ‘see’ flavors in foods and beverages before actually tasting them...(read more)

Environments for Aging/Restoring Homegrown Philosophy
Restoring America’s Homegrown Philosophy... When master’s student Dan Giglio enrolled in a philosophy course taught by Robert Schwarz, he knew right off the bat it wouldn’t be an ordinary course...Schwartz, a UWM Distinguished Professor, approaches philosophical inquiry using a method that had fallen so far out of favor that today’s students might never encounter it... But Pragmatism is back and Schwartz has contributed to its recent revival...(read more)

Elderly Driving/Fatigue Alarm
Researchers sound alarm on the role Fatigue plays in Crashes... Get more sleep... Have another cup of coffee before you drive... It could save your life...A 100-car naturalistic driving study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has shown that fatigue is a cause of 20 percent of crashes, rather than the 2 or 3 percent previously estimated based on surveys, simulator studies, and test tracks...(read more)

  Seniors' Entertainment/Talayna's, Viviano Stellar
Talayna’s, Tony Viviano offer a stellar combination of music show, entertainment, food and hospitality (By Daniel Hines, Publisher, TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com) When two great forces of entertainment and great dining come together, it makes for a memorable evening. ..And that is just what happens at Talayna’s Italian Restaurant, as its comfortable Italian backdrop and truly outstanding food and hospitality , provides the setting for a performance by St. Louis’ favorite crooner Tony Viviano that illustrates why Tony is  the best music revue performer in St. Louis...(read more)

 End-of-Life/Bereavement Perceptions
People who have never lost a Loved One perceive Bereavement as far more devastating than someone who has suffered a previous loss... People who have never suffered the loss of a loved one tend to believe that the bereavement process has a far more destructive and devastating effect on a person compared to those who have actually suffered such a loss in the past, according to a new study by the University of Haifa’s International Center for the Study of Loss, Bereavement and Human Resilience...(read more)

Prescription Drugs/Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices
Democrat Senators introduce legislation to negotiate prescription drug prices with Medicare Drug Savings Act...A group of Democrat U.S. Senators has introduced the Medicare Drug Savings Act that would require Pharma to negotiate Prescription Drug prices...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/Top Food Trends
Top Ten Food Trends for 2013...The April 2013 issue of Food Technology magazine features Contributing Editor, A. Elizabeth Sloan’s take on the top 10 food trends for 2013. Sloan gathers data from a multitude of industry resources to come up with the following trends...(read more)

Seniors' Dietary/Chocolate Food Trends
Top Food Trends for Chocolate...
In the April 2013 issue of Food Technology magazine Senior Editor Don Pszczola writes about growing trends related to recent cocoa and chocolate applications research conducted by Innova Market Insights from the webinar ‘Inspiring 2013 Food Trends for Your Cocoa and Chocolate Applications.’... Following are the top 10 trends discussed...(read more)

Brain/Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning in Your Brain’s Stem Cells? Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells whenever and wherever you need them most... While they wait, they keep themselves in a state of perpetual readiness – poised to become any type of nerve cell you might need as your cells age or get damaged...Now, new research from scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School reveals a key way they do this: through a type of internal ‘spring cleaning’ that both clears out garbage within the cells, and keeps them in their stem-cell state...(read more)