Dementia Will Become an Epidemic in Canada

Dementia could soon become an epidemic in Canada, the national Alzheimer Society warns.  The recent findings of the Canadian Study on Health and Aging have found that within a decade, the number of Canadians...

Warning! Tofu May Harm Your Memory

Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of...

Elderly Americans to double - 71 million by 2030

"Medical schools prepare for "silver tsunami" By Richard C. LewisMon Jan 28, 4:24 PM ET Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly. Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging...

Elderly Patients Used as Experiments?

"Illegal and unethical experiments were conducted over several years, in a systematic manner, on thousands of elderly patients. At least one patient is suspected of having died as a direct result of one of the...

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