Informed Aging
There's research to try to understand heart disease, osteoporosis—all things that happen in the aging population. But the main risk factor is aging.”Maria Perez-Matos
Ph.D. graduate from the Mair Laboratory at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Keeping your brain healthy is about creating neural connections and making them stronger so that they don’t deteriorate.”Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Harvard alum and author of the book “Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life.”
Expand home- and community-based services so that indigent, chronically ill, disabled, and older adults can avoid institutionalization.”Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Harvard alum and author of the book “American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It”
There is an agency that accompanies their aging, rather than the stereotype of decline that we often succumb to when discussing artists in older age.”Alex Braslavsky
Author of the Harvard Horizons project, “Embracing Twilight: Older Women Poets and the Unfurling of Their Voices,”
A multivitamin a day could keep unhealthy years away
Harvard researchers report that taking a multivitamin daily for at least two years may slow biological aging.
Staying sharp
Harvard’s Center for Brain/Mind Medicine highlights how anyone can improve their brain’s resilience to neurologic diseases by attending to lifestyle factors that promote brain health.
Exploring why some remain sharp even as the decades roll by
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are hot on the trail of elderly “super-agers”—whose sharp memories avoid typical age-related declines—in an attempt to study whether there are interventions that can improve prospects for the rest of us.
Exploring why some remain sharp even as the decades roll by- Exercise
The optimal dose of exercise for cognitive performance
- Food
The Green-Mediterranean diet may slow brain aging
- Medication
Lithium depletion is one of the earliest changes in Alzheimer’s disease
- Safety
Falls put older adults at an increased risk of Alzheimer’s
- Mood
Optimism may lower the risk of developing dementia
