To provide you with helpful health information related to aging, please refer to the following articles on our Healthwise® Health Encyclopedia website:
- Age-Related Hearing Loss: Information about your ability to hear as it reduces due to aging.
- Alzheimer's Disease: Topic overview of Alzheimer's disease, including causes, symptoms, and treatments.
- Cancer: A learning center topic for Cancer that provides links to health topics, medical tests, decision-making tools, and take action articles.
- Cataracts: A description of Cataracts, including causes, symptoms, and treatment.
- Coping With Changing Sleep Patterns as You Get Older: A topic about sleep patterns and how they naturally change as you age.
- Dementia: A 3-part video series about dementia:
- Dementia Journey Series: The Journey Begins (Part 1)
This video discusses early stage dementia and Alzheimer’s dementia, including legal and financial matters, education, adapting to early stage symptoms, and lifestyle changes for brain health. - Dementia Journey Series: The Journey Continues (Part 2)
This video discusses the moderate stage of dementia, including symptoms, communication, understanding behavior, getting support, engaged activities, and dealing with driving. - Dementia Journey Series: The Journey's End (Part 3)
This video discusses the late stage of dementia, including symptoms, moving into a facility, connecting with remaining self, being the voice of a loved one, and end of life issues and hospice.
- Dementia Journey Series: The Journey Begins (Part 1)
- Depression in Older Adults: A topic on the causes of depression in older adults and how it can be improved.
- Enlarged Prostate: Information about Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) or an enlarged prostate gland.
- Healthy Aging - Normal Aging: Age-related information for bones, muscles and joints, skin, hair and nails, hormone production, organs, tissues and cells, heart and blood vessels, lungs, senses, and vital signs.
- Heart Attack and Unstable Angina: A topic overview of heart attacks and angina.
- Menopause and Perimenopause: Definitions of menopause and perimenopause, symptoms, and possible treatments.
- Osteoarthritis: Information about Osteoarthritis, a painful problem with the joints.
- Sexuality and Physical Changes With Aging: For women and men.
- Stroke: Information about Strokes and using the FAST acronym as a way to remember signs of stroke symptoms.
- Tremor: A topic about Tremors, an involuntary shaking movement.
- Type 2 Diabetes: A description and causes of Type 2 Diabetes, a list of symptoms, and how to treat the condition.