The Coming Costs of Alzheimer’s

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Today I got an email from the Alzheimer’s Association, with an offer for a downloadable paper titled “Generation Alzheimer’s: The Defining Disease of the Baby Boomers.” It’s a sobering look at how the aging of the baby boomers (the first of whom turned 65 earlier this month) will come with an extraordinarily high price in [...]

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Posted January 28, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Alzheimer's disease, Research studies

Boomer Coverage, Continued

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This past weekend the New York Times continued its coverage of the Boomers reaching retirement age. Interestingly, they tracked down and profiled the first boomer (at least one of the early ones) to reach retirement age; click the link to read more about this generation and one of its first born, Aloysius Nachreiner. Oliver Sacks [...]

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Posted January 5, 2011 by Sharon Delman under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain plasticity, Neuroscience

Person of the Year

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Time Magazine got it wrong.  Naming Mark Zuckerberg “Person of the Year” is okay but a better choice would have been the first Boomer to turn 65 in 2011.  That person, whomever he or she may be, is literally at the forefront of a tsunami that will change our world. NPR reported this morning that [...]

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Posted December 29, 2010 by Sharon Delman under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Exercise, Physical exercise