© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to press release News and Multimedia, Studies show that in older patients hip fracture can be deadly and debilitating, International Osteoporosis Foundation (22 April 2013) Here is what International Osteoporosis Foundation wrote — apparently without thinking about the potentially scary message that they were communicating From the press release: [...]
Categories: Aging,Medicine,Public Health,Science Journalism
Tagged: hip fracture, International Osteoporosis Foundation, Studies show that in older patients hip fracture can be deadly and debilitating, surgery for hip fracture
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- 22 April 2013 – 17:48
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- By BrainiYak
Be a jackass and feel good about it Sometimes I wonder why stupidity from supposedly intelligent people so visibly irritates me. Now I know why: In the cognitively superior older group, who outperformed both the cognitively comparable older adults and the younger adults on every ability tested, “agreeableness was found to have a contrary relationship [...]
Categories: Aging,Science
Tagged: American Psychological Association, disagreeability, intelligence, Personality Predictors of Intelligence Change From Younger to Older Adulthood
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- 4 October 2010 – 15:27
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- By BrainiYak
It could have been worse I’m fortunate (it seems) in having had a crappy memory for my personal history all my life. That way I avoid the disappointment that comes with confidently (a) remembering things that never happened or (b) misremembering things that did. And I don’t need to get depressed about more often forgetting [...]
Categories: Aging
Tagged: memory, misremembering
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- 31 August 2010 – 11:17
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- By BrainiYak