Over the past twenty years I have everything I could about brain aging and brain health.  I am a leading-edge boomer, and I believed that all my friends, family, and acquaintances would be as excited as I was to learn that we could change our brains.  Alzheimer’s didn’t need to be the death sentence we all feared. I was in my fifties then and was absorbing all the knowledge I could about brain health because it was an unknown entity at that time.  My friends took it as inevit

Boomers and the Alzheimer’s Crisis Part One:  The Alzheimer’s Crisis In 2015, I started the My Boomer Brain blog.  One of my very first blogs was about the Elephant in the Room – Alzheimer’s disease.  Alzheimer’s and other dementias were my focus of study while I was getting my master’s degree in gerontology.  For the ten years prior to me going back to school, I had worked with physical and occupational therapists who were addressing the physical disabilities of later stage

Boomers and the Alzheimer’s Crisis Part Two:  The Alzheimer’s Crisis Is the Boomer’s Crisis Brain aging and brain health were gaining attention in the mid-2000s.  I was starting to experience some brain glitches during that time, and it scared me!  At a conference on aging in 2006 I visited a booth by Posit Science.  They had research to support that you could stop brain aging losses by living a brain healthy lifestyle.  The conference started me on a multiyear quest to learn

Never did we ever believe when we were much younger that we would be discussing hearing loss!  That was in the realm of ‘old’ people, and...

In 2015, I started the My Boomer Brain blog.  One of my very first blogs was about the Elephant in the Room – Alzheimer’s disease. ...

Brain aging and brain health were gaining attention in the mid-2000s.  I was starting to experience some brain glitches during that time,...

A few years ago, I wrote about the dilemma of money and dementia. The boomers had not moved into the later years of old age just yet. ...

Never did we ever believe when we were much younger that we would be discussing hearing loss! That was in the realm of ‘old’ people, and...