Most of us, from time to time, find ourselves forgeting things. While this seems to occur as we age, it really can happen at any time. How many of you park your car when you go to shop and can’t remember where your car is? How many find yourselves driving on autopilot and suddenly you don’t know where you are going?

Our team recently wrote a book coming out this July, Old is the New Young, Erickson’s Secrets to Healthy Aging. The authors did a whole segment on the brain and memory with a test for your memory. More about that to come soon. But I took a comment from the book Read the full story

According to a recent story on MSNBC, more and more of the 65 or better population are joining social networks, especially MySpace and Facebook. Reason? They like seeing their grandchildren’s pictures; finding friends they haven’t seen in years and simply staying in touch.

I am on Facebook also. I found 2 former college friends and 2 former high school friends. Maybe the rest are dead. Maybe they just aren’t into Facebook. I don’t go to Facebook Read the full story

Still struggling to get back to a work-brain function regularity after being off for 2 ½ weeks. I thought about a recent article one of our writers, Lisa Rademakers, did for our Good Health Starts Here newsletters on the brain function. I found it interesting and felt like it was talking about me. I decided to put excerpts here (with my comments) for all of you. Read the full story

I have been out for 2+ weeks after Cataract surgery. The surgery was fast; the doctors were exceptional as was the staff; the eye is great; the left eye is not (no cataract) so the 2 eyes are different and seeing had to wait till glasses were done.

Did a lot of TV watching and playing with grandchildren. I even got up at 4 on Black Friday to go with my daughter in law to shop for deals. I got a lot of deals; and a lot of headaches; not Read the full story

Who knew? If you surf the web, you may increase your brain’s function; especially if you are a boomer and above! This is reported in a press release on WebMD. the release reports on a new study by UCLA (Parvin Foundation funding) that looked at brain activity during web searches.

They found that for middle to older adults had more stimulation of decision making and complex reasoning areas of the brain than peers who were new to web surfing. They also found that reading does not stimulate the same areas of the brain as Internet surfing does. Read the full story