Old Age
29 Jul
The focus of my reflections of today is on the challenges of old age. However, one cannot speak about the challenges without delving into immeasurable blessings and beauty that trail
18 Mar
Surviving Covid-19 protects most people against reinfection for at least six months, but elderly patients are more likely to be laid low by the virus a second time, researchers reported Thursday.
7 Mar
Old age brings with it more opportunity to enjoy life with family and loved ones, the chance to pursue new activities or a long-forgotten passion. However, it is also characterised by multiple health challenges. According to the World Health Organization, the number of people aged 60 years and older will increase from 1 billion in…
21 Jan
The march of time can be unkind to the human body but new research hints at a cause -- and possible solution -- for some of the ailments and decline that often come with age.
8 Dec 2019
You should also try your best to build your own house or invest in landed properties so that you will not be homeless or be a burden to anybody at your old age. Society will care less for you. No matter how glorious your previous career was or how famous you were, aging would always…
26 Sep 2019
Given the pervasive environment of poverty without cause in Nigeria, political discussions are necessarily dreary or un-interesting in the absence of sincere interrogation of the root cause of the failure to establish the incidents of the welfare state regime in the country. It would be an odd sort of state which regards the general welfare…
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A new study published in the latest issue of Neurobiology of Aging showed that the older people get, the less apt they may be to recognise that they’re made an error.
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Persistent illnesses are essentially training the body, ultimately building up long-term immunity, according to a study by Washington University School of Medicine, United States (U.S.)
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