Mental Health & Aging

Loneliness isn't just a feeling, it’s a health risk. From protecting brain function to reducing mortality, this post explores how social connection and community engagement are essential to aging well. Discover how clinicians, caregivers, and older adults can build meaningful connection into everyday life.

Good nutrition is essential for healthy aging, but many older adults face hidden risks of malnutrition. Learn how simple dietary strategies can support muscle, memory, and independence.

Confusion in older adults is often misunderstood, too quickly labeled as dementia or dismissed as natural aging. But behind the disorientation may lie treatable conditions like delirium, depression, or even a medication side effect. This post explores why clinicians must go beyond the surface and approach cognitive changes with clinical curiosity and diagnostic precision. Through the lens of geriatric insight, we unpack how confusion can be a critical turning point, not a fin