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Healthy Aging Highlights (YouTube)

NIAApril 28, 2025

Explore healthy aging topics and tips for older adults including healthy eating, exercise, vaccines, social isolation and loneliness, menopause, and memory and forgetfulness.

How the Aging Brain Affects Thinking

NIAMarch 24, 2025

The brain controls many aspects of thinking — remembering, planning and organizing, making decisions, and much more. These cognitive abilities affect how well we do everyday tasks and whether we can live independently.

Risk and future burden of dementia in the United States

NIAMarch 11, 2025

The study suggests that the lifetime risk of dementia may be much higher than previously thought. This highlights an urgent need for policies that promote healthy aging. Interventions targeted toward high-risk individuals could help reduce the societal burdens of dementia.

Difficulty managing bills may signal early dementia

NIAFebruary 18, 2025

Financial challenges such as missed credit card and mortgage payments may indicate early stages of dementia long before a formal diagnosis, according to an NIA-funded study.

Loneliness linked to dementia risk in large-scale analysis

NIAJanuary 16, 2025

Feeling lonely increases the risk for dementia by 31%, according to an analysis of data from multiple NIA-funded population-based studies. These findings were focused explicitly on loneliness and looked at its links to Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and cognitive impairment without dementia.

Lifelong exercise promotes brain health in older adults

NIAJanuary 8, 2025

Lifelong exercise promotes brain health in older adults Individuals who maintain a regimen of physical activity throughout their lives may prevent brain deterioration during middle and older adulthood.

Aging may change some brain cells more than others

NIAJanuary 2, 2025

Aging may change some brain cells more than others NIH-funded mouse study provides road map for how aging may alter brain cell genetic activity.

AI speech analysis predicted progression of cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s with over 78% accuracy

NIAJanuary 2, 2025

AI speech analysis predicted progression of cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s with over 78% accuracy An artificial intelligence (AI) model analyzing transcripts of speech from past cognitive tests predicted the progression of cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease within six years with more than 78% accuracy.