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NPR
Emil Girardi moved to San Francisco on New Year's Eve in 1960. He loved everything about the city: the energy, the people and the hills. And, of course, the bars, where Girardi mixed drinks for most of his adult life.
About 10 years ago, the 83-year-old New York native had a stroke and collapsed on the sidewalk near his Nob Hill home. Everything changed.
"I didn't want to go out of the house," Girardi recalled, adding he only felt comfortable "going from the bedroom to the dining room."
He'd started to fear the city's streets — and growing older.
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Psychiatric Times
Minerals are critical in supporting several key functions related to mood disorders, including neuro transmitter synthesis, cellular metabolism, and immunocompetence. While micronutrient deficiencies were presumably thought to occur in lower-income countries, micronutrient depletion has emerged as a form of "type B" malnutrition in industrialized countries despite food surpluses. Modern-day malnutrition has been attributed to poor dietary patterns, marked by excess intake of refined sugars and the absence of nutrient-dense foods.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 There are now fewer adults being diagnosed with the dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This dip in numbers is attributed to probable changes in lifestyle. The study — "A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012," led by Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., and David R. Weir, Ph.D. — reported a significant decrease from 11.6 percent in 2000 to 8.8 percent in 2012.
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American Council on Science and Health
China, with one of the largest — if not the largest — elderly population on Earth, has a strong incentive to learn how to support or improve cognitive function for its older citizens. And as people all around the world live longer, understanding how to slow mental impairment and dementia has become an ever-growing concern. That's in part what has led a multinational research team to look for ways to mitigate cognitive degeneration. And a new, interesting study focusing on post-lunchtime napping for the elderly is helping shed light on this important issue.
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Medical News Today
Dementia affects tens of millions of people worldwide. Common risk factors include age, family history, and genetics. But new research points to an additional factor that might affect the chances of developing dementia: living near a major, busy road.
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Pain Medicine News
The older man's addiction could be traced back to an opioid prescription after hip replacement surgery, according to Micah Sobota, PharmD, BCSP, a clinical pharmacist at Coleman Behavioral Health, in Lima, Ohio. When providers refused to keep renewing his prescription, the man, then in his early 60s, started buying from drug dealers.
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Chicago Tribune
It took a lot of convincing for John Evard to go to rehab. Seven days into his stay at the Las Vegas Recovery Center, the nausea and aching muscles of opioid withdrawal were finally beginning to fade. "Any sweats?" a nurse asked him as she adjusted his blood pressure cuff. "Last night it was really bad, but not since I got up," replied Evard, 70, explaining that he'd awakened several times with his sheets drenched.
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