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Topic- Attitudes & perceptions
Stats: Only 16% of adults 65+ routinely tested for thinking, memory
Despite a strong belief among older adults and primary care physicians that brief cognitive assessments are important, only half of older adults are being assessed for thinking and memory issues, and only 16% receive assessments as part of their routine health checkups.
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Low-quality health stories the norm on social media
Given the importance of health and medical news in everyone's lives, a relatively new organization called Health Feedback, made up of scientists who have published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, collaborated with the Credibility Coalition, recently created by the World Wide Web Consortium, to assess the scientific quality of the 100 most-shared health articles on social media in 2018.
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Stats: 85% of adults 65+ feel younger than their actual age
A majority of older adults (88%) say they feel healthier than their parents' generation, and 85% say they feel younger than their chronological age, according to a recent survey of 1,000 US adults ages 65 and older, surveyed from October to November 2018.
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Meaningful life linked to healthy aging
Engaging in activities perceived to be worthwhile, such as supporting children and grandchildren or completing a satisfying project, are linked to walking faster, sleeping better and experiencing less chronic pain in later life, according to researchers from University College London, UK.
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Pseudomedicine for dementia, brain health on the rise
Americans are feeding the multi-billion-dollar "brain health" dietary supplement industry in a desperate bid to stave off or reverse Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
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Stats: 64% of retirees don't have a big enough nest egg
Fewer than half of retirees (46%) have built a large enough retirement nest egg, and the rest are in a "precarious" position, according to findings from the latest Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies survey.
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