The Washington Post recently published “A Guide for Making the Most of Old Age.” What stood out for us at Engage As You Age were the first two items in the guide: Exercise your brain Strong social ties can also help For the brain fitness or exercising your brain section of the article it cites… Read more »

There are over 5 million Americans that are living with Alzheimer’s disease. A just released report from the Alzheimer’s Association, 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, finds that African-Americans and Hispanics are at the highest risk of developing the disease. The Alzheimer’s Association found that African-Americans are nearly twice as likely as Caucasians to develop… Read more »

On February 11, 2010, the monthly Silicon Valley Positive Aging Forum Series will takes place at Avenidas (located in Palo Alto, California). It will feature Dr. Laura Carstenson, a Stanford University Professor and the Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. The topic of her lecture is A Long Bright Future. This lecture is… Read more »

First and foremost, more and more seniors are getting online via personal computers. According to a 2009 Nielsen report, the number of seniors online has increased by 6.2 million since 2004 (from 11.3 to 17.5 million). We hear regularly from seniors in the San Francisco Bay Area that they’d love to learn what computers can… Read more »

Engage As You Age will be leading a panel discussion on “Aging In Place” at San Francisco State University on November 18, 2009. FACT: 9 out of 10 baby boomers and seniors want to remain in their own homes throughout their entire retirement. This panel discussion will cover not only what options are out there… Read more »

The National Institute on Aging recently funded a study that provided a comprehensive review of cognitive enrichment studies. The study found that physical exercise, social engagement and intellectually stimulating pursuits may enhance or at the very least preserve cognitive functioning as we age. Other findings from the study include: those that were socially engaged and… Read more »

Researchers from the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge and the Peninsula Medical School recently compared 8,299 Americans 65+ with 5,276 British seniors and found that the American group had significantly better “brain health.” The American “brain health” advantage was found to be even more pronounced as people aged. Specifically, differences amongst those over the… Read more »

In a recent survey of 100 centenarians by Evercare, 3% of them said that they were using Twitter! Right now there are over 84,000 centenarians in the United States. My hunch is that probably less than 3% of them are tweeting as Evercare’s survey size is pretty small. Still, many seniors are turning to technology… Read more »

Researchers at Rush University released a study this year (2009) that assessed 900 seniors between 1997 and 2008 and found that less-frequent socializing was associated with a more rapid rate of motor decline and a 65% greater likelihood of developing a disability.