Aging
What the Air You Breathe May Be Doing to Your Brain
For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition. Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further […]
Lo que el aire que respiras le puede estar haciendo a tu cerebro
Durante años, dos pacientes fueron al Centro de Memoria Penn de la Universidad de Pennsylvania, donde investigadores y médicos hacen el seguimiento de personas con deterioro cognitivo a medida que envejecen y, a la vez, de un grupo con capacidad cognitiva normal. Ambos pacientes, un hombre y una mujer, habían aceptado donar sus cerebros a […]
Taste-safe sensory nulla dignissim
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When a Hearing Aid Isn’t Enough
Kitty Grutzmacher had contended with poor hearing for a decade, but the problem had worsened over the past year. Even with her hearing aids, “there was little or no sound,” she said. “I was avoiding going out in groups. I stopped playing cards, stopped going to Bible study, even going to church.” Her audiologist was […]
An Age-Old Fear Grows More Common: ‘I’m Going To Die Alone’
This summer, at dinner with her best friend, Jacki Barden raised an uncomfortable topic: the possibility that she might die alone. “I have no children, no husband, no siblings,” Barden remembered saying. “Who’s going to hold my hand while I die?” Barden, 75, never had children. She’s lived on her own in western Massachusetts since […]
Un miedo ancestral cada vez más común: “Voy a morir solo”
Este verano, durante una cena con su mejor amiga, Jacki Barden habló de un tema incómodo: la posibilidad de morir sola. “No tengo hijos, ni esposo, ni hermanos”, recordó haber dicho Barden. “¿Quién va a sostener mi mano cuando muera?”. Barden, de 75 años, nunca tuvo hijos. Vive sola en el oeste de Massachusetts desde […]
Por qué los huesos frágiles no es solo un problema de las mujeres
Ronald Klein iba en bicicleta por su barrio en North Wales, Pennsylvania, en 2006, cuando intentó saltar una cuneta. “Pero iba demasiado lento; no tenía suficiente impulso”, recordó. Al caer la bicicleta, extendió el brazo izquierdo para amortiguar la caída. No parecía un accidente grave, pero “no podía levantarme”. En la sala de emergencias, las […]
Why Brittle Bones Aren’t Just a Woman’s Problem
Ronald Klein was biking around his neighborhood in North Wales, Pennsylvania, in 2006 and tried to jump a curb. “But I was going too slow — I didn’t have enough momentum,” he recalled. As the bike toppled, he thrust out his left arm to break the fall. It didn’t seem like a serious accident, yet […]