by Senior Scene | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Combating Obesity By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech Before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there already exists a pandemic related to excess body adiposity. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 1.9 billion adults and...
by Senior Scene | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Is COPD Life Threatening? By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease caused by damage to the lungs, which makes it hard to breathe. Often, COPD is a result of many...
by Senior Scene | Dec 31, 2023 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Age-Related Vision Loss By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech January 04, 2024, marks the World Braille Day – birth of Louis Braille (1809-1852), inventor of the reading and writing system used by millions of blind and partially sighted people....
by Senior Scene | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Loneliness And Social Isolation By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech Everyone needs social connections to survive and thrive. But as people age, they often find themselves spending more time alone. Being alone may leave older...
by Senior Scene | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Keep My Mouth Young In Old Age! By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech Keep My Mouth Young In Old Age! The idiom “getting long in the tooth”, meaning to age, is believed to have first been coined to describe how horses’ teeth...
by Senior Scene | Oct 1, 2023 | Featured Article (01), General Interest, Magazine, Senior Health
Thanatophobia By Arvind M. Dhople, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Florida Tech Thanatophobia (fear of death) is an intense fear of death or dying. For some, this involves a fear of being dead. Others are afraid of the dying process. A person with thanatophobia can fear...
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