sacredhands on Apr 20th, 2008Power Plate Vibrates Your Joints So You Can Boogie into Old Age Gracefully
Falling in old age usually means bad things happen shortly after. Research shows that breaking a hip portends the end for some. How can you prevent that inevitable end from coming before its time? Hint: think Beach Boys! Good vibrations, man! Check out the “Power Plate” that exercises your joints to give you a better […]
sacredhands on Apr 20th, 2008The Happiest People On the Planet Are Senior Citizens
Feeling chipper today? Well, a new study by Yang Yang, a sociologist, suggests that senior citizens are pretty darn happy as they grow older. Here’s the happiness factor: “the odds of being happy increased 5 percent with every 10 years of age.” So hang, man, the bend in the road ahead is the garden of […]
sacredhands on Nov 27th, 2007Natural Fertility Population Shows Lower-Voiced Men Make Better Bed Mates
Clever anthropologists ask questions that may seem ridiculous at first but then turn out to offer profound insights into the nature of humanity. Who knew that asking whether the tone of a man’s voice just might have an influence over the fertile women in his vicinity…and yet it does apparently. Fertile women like men with […]
sacredhands on Nov 26th, 2007Boo Hoo: Men Show Empathy When They Know Movies Are Fiction Instead of Fact
New research shows that men fail to show emotion unless they think that which they are expressing emotion about is pure fiction. What’s that mean? It means if a man is watching a movie, he won’t cry if he knows the story is based on reality. If you tell him it’s all a fantasy, then […]
sacredhands on Nov 19th, 2007Out-Of-Pocket Caregiving Costs Add Up To Expensive Hobby
Pay attention, caregivers! Someone has finally produced a study about the cost of providing caregiving to family members. The upshot: “These caregivers, spending on average 10 percent of their household income, manage the financial burden by taking out loans, skipping vacations, dipping into savings or ignoring their own health care.” The average out-of-pocket amount is […]
sacredhands on Oct 19th, 2007Listen to Grandma Money Buys Happiness If You Have Health And Friends
The one thing researchers seem incapable of figuring out is what makes the human mind happy. Is it money? Expensive objects? A house on the beach. Is it material versus spiritual? The answer, my friends, is not the leaves falling off the money tree in your background. It all boils down to one thing: social […]
sacredhands on Oct 15th, 2007Chemical Signals Confirm Presence of Alzheimer’s Disease Danka
Scientists have shown some success at “screening for a set of 18 chemical signals that consistently turn up in the blood of people suffering from the Alzheimer’s disease.” Sure glad they can confirm the bad news, but wouldn’t it be better if they spent their time coming up with a way to thwart the problem. […]
sacredhands on Oct 10th, 2007Longevity in the Age of Baby Boomer Demographics
Check out this cover image of the New York Times Sunday Magazine! The story: “Are we prepared for many more people living to 100 and beyond - for parent-child dynamics, sibling rivalries and other relationships that go on and on and on?” Date: February 23, 2004. It’s still a relevant question that is only going […]
sacredhands on Oct 1st, 2007WHO Age-Friendly Cities Report Advantages and Barriers in Delhi India
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how Baby Boomers are migrating to big cities for retirement. The idea is simple: buy a condo, walk everywhere, and live in close proximity to culture. HelpAge India conducted a survey to find out just how welcoming Delhi India was to seniors. The results: not good. “The […]