Have you ever wondered whether your memory is normal, what is the difference between a normally aging brain and a brain that develops dementia? Am I at risk of developing dementia or is dementia inevitable? Let’s look at the easy…
Category: Aging
Education for the public surrounding aging issues, challenges, healthy aging, dementia, ageism, and more
Is depression a normal part of aging?
Many people believe that depression is a natural part of normal aging. You are not alone if you worry about this. But, the short answer is: NO. Rather, challenging life events can increase the risk of developing depression. And these…
Healthy versus secondary Ageing: What’s the difference?
Ageing happens to all organisms, and to all body parts, including the brain. How we age can have an impact on a person’s quality of life. Whenever aging process includes disease processes, we call it secondary or pathological ageing. “Pathological”…
What is Dementia?
Dementia is a summary term for disease-related processes that interfere with normal brain functioning via decreasing a person’s capacity for cognitive processing (decreasing, for example, memory, and reasoning). There are different types of dementia, the most common of which is…
Healthy Cognitive Aging in the 21st Century: The 2nd puzzle piece to the Successful Aging Concept
Given the fact that our aging population increases as we speak, the concept of successful aging has been a topic of interest not only to researchers but also to society at large. According to the World Health Organization (2012), the…
Ageism and its consequences
What is ageism and why is it a problem? Ageism is a form of stigmatization. It is a prejudice related to age due to bias of overestimating negative age-related changes. In short, we think more about the negative changes that…
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