Category: Health & Wellness
Rocky Mountain PBS Focuses on Baby Boomer Issues
“Life Wise” on Rocky Mountain PBS, based in Denver, is a special program addressing important baby boomer and senior issues.
How to Talk with Your Doctor
We hope against hope but sooner or later we’re going to be seeing the doctor … probably more often than we used to. The question is, as independent baby boomers with healthy lifestyles, will we take the doctor’s advise seriously? Dr. Bill Roiter says there’s a way to relate to the doctor that will keep us healthy.
Think Differently, Lose Weight
We boomers will never be “old”, but we are aging! As you might have noticed, as people age they tend to gain pounds along with wisdom, so many of us are concerned about our weight and our health. And we are not alone. Two-thirds of Americans today are overweight! 41% of Americans are currently trying to lose weight.
The Golden Ear Mouse
When we boomers say, “We’re different from our parents’ generation; we’re more active, more flexible, more youthful,” we mean it. But are our bodies always listening? Not necessarily, at least not yet. That’s why we’re fascinated by research we read about at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York – “Squeak, Squeak – Can You Hear Me Now?”
Hearts and Minds of Baby Boomers
As the rhetoric associated with health care reform reaches a boiling point, factions are fighting for the hearts and minds of Baby Boomers and seniors, reports Paul Briand for The Examiner.
Baby Boomer Health: The Power of 4
At BoomerCafé we don’t try to improve your health; we simply try to encourage you to live an active, healthy lifestyle. But what we like about this piece by baby boomer Paula Owens, fitness coach and author of “The Power of 4,” is that it does both. Obviously what’s good for some of us won’t [...]
No More Little Old Ladies!
Just because you’re hitting, say, 50, you’re not supposed to give up certain things just because you’re over that hump. Same for 60. In other words, don’t live by the inevitable and unstoppable progress of the calendar. Barbara Morris doesn’t, and she’s 80! She has written two books about staying young, not for her generation, [...]
Baby Boomers Hit by Sex Cancers
BBC News reports from London … The arrival of the “swinging 60s” may have heralded a rise in sexually-transmitted cancers, say researchers. Rates of anal, vulval and vaginal cancers rose for “baby boomers” born in the decades after the Second World War. The culprit is the human papillomavirus (HPV), acquired during sex, said the King’s [...]
Survival and Recovery from Grief
We like to be upbeat … but we also like to be realistic. And realism says, we’re going to start losing the ones we love, if not this year, or even this decade, then the next. How will that affect our jobs, and our performance in the workplace? Jane Galbraith is the author of “Baby [...]
Wigging Out
[Editor's note: Writer Cathy Fischer is our friend, and she is writing with great courage about her personal battle with breast cancer, a challenge that many women face. Cathy is keeping a journal that is being posted on her blog, FiftyIsTheNew.com. Her most recent story is shared with the readers of BoomerCafé.] Breast Cancer update: [...]
