Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. This degenerative and fatal disease was first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1906; it damages a person’s ability to reason, remember, speak, perform simple calculations, and carry out routine tasks. As of September 2009, the number of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease is reported to be […]

Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was “born with music inside me”. The famous neurologist Oliver Sacks actually believes in this and wrote a book on the topic: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. This book examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly […]

Linked Senior was invited to speak at the UCLA Center on Aging Technology & Aging conference on October 30th 2009in Los Angeles. The theme of the conference was “Living Longer and Better Through Technology”.Part of the panel Living Well: Emotional Health and Quality of Life, Linked Senior discussed products that entertain, inform, enrich, educate, and […]

The internet as we know it has been around since 1994. Yet 15 years later, while 79% of the general population reports using the Internet, only 42% of those 65 and older indicate use. Why, should the senior care industry and the technology industry care about this?It is now widely known that Internet use has […]

Placing a family member in a nursing home is painful and difficult, yet necessary when the medical and physical demands make other options unacceptable. It is often said that the community environment and procedures are overwhelming and that the family must learn the new set of rules. Recently, communities have started understanding that it also […]

We all know exercise and sport is good for health, some people believe it might be too strenuous or dangerous for seniors but a recent study from Israeli researchers proved the opposite. As reported by Lindsey Tanner an AP Medical Writer: The results of the study “clearly support the continued encouragement of physical activity, even […]