By Guest Column Friday, January 30, 2009
- Paul Raeburn Key Concepts
It is widely recognized that a 40-year-old woman has an increased risk of bearing a child with Down syndrome. What is not known is that a 40-year-old man has the same risk of fathering a child with schizophrenia—and even higher odds of his offspring having autism. The risk of bipolar disorder appears to rise as well.
Nursing Home EssentialsBy Guest Column Wednesday, January 28, 2009
-Lise Cloutier-Steele
The placement of my father in a long term care facility was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. He needed health care that I could not provide on my own, and knowing that home services would be difficult to get on a regular basis, a nursing home was my best option.
By Dr. Gifford Jones Sunday, July 6, 2008
What’s the chance of living to 85 years and beyond? Dr. Bradley J. Wilcox is the lead author of a longevity study carried out by the Pacific Health Research Institute in Hawaii. It’s one of the longest studies on aging and it followed the health of 5,820 Japanese-American men for 40 years. At the start of the study their average age was 45 and they were all healthy. What happened to them depended on nine key factors. You can calculate your longevity with this simple arithmetic.
Healthy Aging? Not Just the Stuff of DreamsBy Guest Column Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews, Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Aging
While Canadians struggle to go green, one thing’s certain: as a society we’re going grey. In fact, we’re on the cusp of a historical first in Canada – in two decades almost a quarter of us will be “old”.
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