Topic
Every Healthy Aging Secrets article tagged prevention — 5 pieces across 3 sections.
Brain & Memory
The supplement industry has produced a great deal of confident advertising about brain health and remarkably little convincing data. The interventions with real evidence behind them are duller, cheaper and harder.
Preventive Care
Screening has an intuitive logic — find it early, treat it early — that holds for some conditions and quietly fails for others. Age changes the arithmetic in both directions.
Brain & Memory
A third of older patients on a general medical ward develop acute confusion. It is largely preventable, frequently missed, and it is not simply a bad night that resolves on discharge.
Brain & Memory
A transient ischaemic attack resolves within an hour and carries a stroke risk of several per cent within the following two days. It is the one neurological symptom you should never wait out.
Living Well
After several hundred articles about individual interventions, the honest summary is short, unglamorous, and considerably less interesting than the supplement industry would like.
