The Cognitive Longevity Gap: The Unfinished Business of the Longevity Revolution Grad school offered quite a challenge for me. I had just pushed over the 50-year-old mark, and I had jumped in with both feet to learn about all the issues of aging in our later years. My gerontological studies program opened my eyes about the state of aging in the United States. The caveat here was I was still younger and looked at all these aging issues as us versus them. But now I am part

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

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,...