By age 40, about 1 in 10 adults will experience some hearing loss. It happens so slowly and gradually, says audiologist Dina Rollins. “You don’t realize what you’re missing.” And even as it worsens, many people are in denial. By the time someone is convinced they have a hearing problem, age-related memory loss may have
How often have we heard the old joke that memory is the first thing to go with age and you forget what the second thing is? There are many things that diminish as we age and unfortunately, our memories are one of those things that tend to suffer with the ravages of age. But what
Pregnancy causes a number of changes within a woman and those closest to her. There is no doubt that pregnant women undergo mood swings due to the different concentrations of hormones being secreted due to the pregnancy. They often become more emotional over different things and some pregnant women even report that they are more
Growing up, I used to think that naps were only for babies and toddlers but once you made it 1sst grade, naps were a thing of the past. You’re expected to get enough sleep at night for you to make it through the day without a nap. Through most of my adult life, I believed
Most forms of memory loss are just attributed to age or some form of dementia but there are other things that happen in our lives that many affect our memory or loss of memory that we have never considered. It’s not always due to senility or Alzheimer’s. We just posted a piece on how prolonged
Speaking with a number of older people through the years, it seems that many of them fear losing their memory. It’s bad enough to just forget a name or the right word to use or what the name of that song or restaurant that you liked so well but forgetting more important things like loved
Generalizations are always dangerous to make, but allow me some latitude in making this one: Many women tend to be not only more emotional than men, but they also seem at times to be forgetful or somewhat scattered in their thoughts. Please, know that this is simply a generalization and does not apply to every
