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Friday, April 26, 2024
TopicOld age

Topic: Old age

Best NMN Supplements To Support Optimal NAD+ Levels

Getting older is often a perilous journey, fraught with physical degradation, mental decline, and other alarming issues. In recent years, emerging science has demonstrated...

New book looks at how life changes after Alzheimer’s and how we cope & understood the disease

Published by Penguin Random House India, ‘My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's’ by Sandeep Jauhar will be released on 20 June on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch digital ebooks.

Cookies, chips, frozen meals—ultra-processed foods can cause cognitive decline, dementia

Research increasingly indicates that a poor diet is a risk factor for memory impairments during normal aging.

Will you have dementia in future? Your nightmares can tell: UK study

We still know so little about why we dream, how the brain creates them, and their significance for our health – especially the health of our brains.

Not everyone gets happier as retirement comes. Many just bottom out with age

The so-called U-shaped curve of happiness is reassuring but, unfortunately, probably not true.

Next global economic threat is old age, a challenge no one really knows how to deal with

Societies like Japan are on the front lines of what will eventually be a global challenge. The human species has never before dealt with prolonged and continuous aging.

Covid-19 is more serious for the elderly. So what?

Governments shouldn't be focusing just on identifying which demographic is more affected, but on its response to dealing with the data at hand.

Why voluntary isolation and not Covid lockdowns just for the elderly is the way forward

A selective lockdown would probably be unconstitutional in many liberal democracies. Even if well-intentioned, it would set a precedent that’s unacceptably dangerous.

No stepping out, Zoom calls & counselling — how Delhi’s old-age homes are dealing with Covid

Old age homes in Delhi, both government and private, have taken extreme measures to protect their residents from Covid-19 since the elderly are especially susceptible to infection.

Covid-19 mainly kills old people. So do most other diseases

Covid-19 is a highly infectious disease for everybody over 40, but is less harmful than a disease of similar infectiousness.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.