This column is reprinted with permission from The Lexington Herald-Leader While many baby boomers may not want to admit it, they are aging. Now one of their concerns is “How can we age well?” Dr. James Borders wrote a recent column in The Herald-Leader about aging well. Here’s what he said. Most people are aware [...]

Jane Little began playing bass in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra when she was a teenager and admits it’s hard to remember when she wasn’t there. Geoff Edgers with The Washington Post tells her story. ATLANTA – On Monday, Jane Little got her weekly chemo shot. Thursday, she gulped down five green steroid pills and reported to [...]

Founded in 1979 with support from Col. Harlan Sanders and John Y. Brown, the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been conducting research on Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and other age-related disease for more than 35 years. In 1985, the Center was one of the first 10 National Institutes of Health-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers and is one [...]

Eating seafood is linked to a reduced risk of dementia-associated brain changes in people who carry the ApoE4 gene variation, which increases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a story in the New York Times reported last week. Eating seafood was not linked to similar changes in those who carried other forms of the ApoE gene. [...]