You are losing weight. You feel depressed, confused, tired, irritable, and you do not feel like eating. You have signs of dehydration. Examples include dark yellow urine, dry mouth and lips, dry skin, fast heartbeat, and urinating less than usual. You have questions or concerns about your...
Sixty and Me is an online magazine about life after 60. Topics range from makeup for older women and senior dating to retirement advice and senior travel.
Level of education ≤ 10 years corresponded to 6 years (men) and 4 years (women) earlier onset of frailty (SPPB ≤ 9) compared to education ≥ 14 years. Conclusion: We found that the SPPB captured a gradual decline and wide distribution in physical performance in old age. ...
So, I want to share with you what has worked for me and for many other older women (as well as young women and men) I've worked with. As we age, we need MUCH less food, and this can be challenging. I had to accept that my body needs much less food than before menopause. I ...
Sixty and Me is an online magazine about life after 60. Topics range from makeup for older women and senior dating to retirement advice and senior travel.
(We used a large municipal warehouse for Art Department and set construction.) Production agreed. We learned that for all the generations of men that had worked the mines, the women -wives, mothers, sisters, daughters – had never seen the inside of a mine, the places where their men ...
He said let’s do it! All he asked was that I ride not clipped in so if I had to get off bike fast I wouldn’t wrench my knee. 2 1/2 weeks out on my first walk….a half mile. It was a start The road under my feet again ...
and older adults will lose 0.7% to 0.8% of muscle per year. Longitudinal studies show similar results, suggesting that older women lose 1% of leg muscle mass per year and 0.2% to 0.4% of trunk muscle, with men losing double that amount of trunk muscle. Loss of strength is substantially ...
I met Lee at BookPeople in Austin, when we attended a book-signing for three women we both knew. She “took me under her wing,” became my friend, and was always a steadfast cheerleader as I wrote my book and struggled to regain my health. She is the first person I acknowledged in...
A very few of the women had boycotted their changed appearance by dyeing their hair; one woman even had a head of brilliantly bright red hair in a blunt, modern cut. Still, I could tell, she was older than me. So what was the answer? What determines ‘real’ age? Should one not ...