Category: Healthy Aging

Healthy Aging

Who Should Get the Shingles Vaccine?

Recently, I sat watching a professional football game with my family. During a commercial break, an advertisement aired of a 60-something former pro quarterback urging the viewers to receive the herpes zoster, or shingles vaccine.

Healthy Aging

Study Proves Staying Active Longer May Be Within Your Control

It’s something we’ve all heard for years: Exercise can help keep older adults healthy. But now a study, the first of its kind to look at frail, older adults, proves that physical activity can help these people maintain their mobility and dodge physical disability.

Healthy Aging

Remaining Happily Married as We Age

Early in my career as a marriage counselor, one of the first surprises I encountered was a couple that had been married 42 years coming for relationship counseling. I thought, “What can I tell them they don’t already know? What is it they have not worked out in 42 years of marriage?”