Falling down stairs can be a risk to everyone, but for aging baby boomers and seniors, when bones and muscle tone are weakening, it can be a devastating event. Psychological articles state that thousands die in the US alone from falling down stairs with many more thousands seriously injured. All...
According to the Encarta Dictionary, insomnia is the “inability to fall asleep or to remain asleep long enough to feel rested, especially when this is a problem that continues over time,” and unfortunately this condition of sleeplessness is one of the most frequent elderly problems. Psychological articles tell us that it...
Elderly minds, just like elderly bodies, vary from person to person. Not all elderly minds exhibit the symptoms of elderly problems. The frailest elderly people can shock the socks off those who deal with them on a daily basis by grasping ideas and concepts with razor sharp alacrity. Contrarily, another elderly...
Some psychological articles say that dreams are the brain’s way of getting rid of useless information that we’ve collected throughout the day; while other psychological articles propound alternate theories. Either way, while, we may not remember our nightly dreams, we do indeed dream. And one very common dream in childhood, and typically...
Dreams are one of the very important psychological issues; as many psychological articles tell us a dream is more than just a random compilation of the unconscious mind. In fact, psychological theorists believe that a dream actually gives us a window of insight into what the unconscious mind is really thinking and...
The present day technological boom has brought a generational gap between the aging baby boomers and the younger generations. Psychological articles tell us that the techno revolution is in great part responsible for today’s age related generational schism, as technological advances have caused a shift in the communication styles, mores...
Baby boomers, known as a force of social change now face an even more daunting prospect than the social injustices they confronted 40 years ago. Coming into the twilight of their own lives, they can now view their legacy with perspective. What they see is a world that is drastically...
Psychological articles tell us that depression is a common occurrence in all age ranges. Yet while recognized in younger and middle aged persons, it is often neglected as an elderly problem. There are many contributing factors toward geriatric depression. Some causes include, loneliness, loss of motivation and anhedonia, (lack of pleasure...
Some elderly ladies, despite having elderly problems, are so beautifully groomed. Many of them, of course, learned their grooming routine in the forties and fifties when, rightly or wrongly, it was unacceptable for women to wear jeans or appear in public without a hat and a pair of gloves (winter...
