Category: Seniors / Aging

United Auto Workers negotiators representing Chrysler Group employees on Sunday refused to support the

On the International day of Older People, The Stroke Association announces some worrying survey findings which show that just under half of the UK’s older population would wait 24 hours or more to take action if someone was experiencing the symptoms of a stroke, leaving them susceptible to severe disability or death.

If you are an ‘older adult’ and take creatine as well as doing exercise you may well enjoy greater benefits than just doing the exercise, say researchers from McMaster University, Canada. One of the common consequences of growing older is an increase in body fat and lowering of muscle mass, say the researchers. You can slow down the loss of muscle mass by doing exercise, say the scientists. Dr.

Local United Auto Workers leaders on Friday unanimously voted in favor of a new contract with General Motors that includes the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association, the Detroit News reports (Terlep, Detroit News, 10/1).

Local United Auto Workers leaders on Friday unanimously voted in favor of a new contract with General Motors that includes the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association, the Detroit News reports (Terlep, Detroit News, 10/1).

The Alliance for Aging Research has chosen Janet Woodcock, M.D., FDA’s deputy commissioner and chief medical officer, as the Indispensable Person of the Year for Health Research, for effective, innovative and ethical leadership. Dr. Woodcock leads FDA’s Critical Path Initiative, which is designed to improve the scientific bases for developing, evaluating, and manufacturing FDA-regulated products.

United Auto Workers on Friday will begin a “massive, meticulous effort to sell a landmark” contract with General Motors that includes the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association to rank-and-file union members, the

The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday examined how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — a federal law enacted in 1974 that exempts employer-sponsored pension plans, as well as health insurance and other benefits provided by employers, from state regulation — could “invalidate many of the budding efforts by states and cities to expand access to health care.

One of the first large-scale studies to examine the association of sleep behaviors, neuromuscular performance and daytime function in a community dwelling of older women finds that poorer sleep is associated with worse physical function in older women during the daytime. The study, authored by Suzanne E. Goldman, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, was based on a total of 2,889 women, who participated in the 2002-2004 examination of the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures.

A new contract between United Auto Workers and General Motors that includes the creation of a voluntary employees’ beneficiary association awaits ratification by rank-and-file union members, with voting likely to start this weekend, the