Judith Graham The Washington Post

An estimated 1 in 4 older adults take anticholinergic drugs - a wide-ranging class of medications used to treat allergies, insomnia, leaky bladders, diarrhea, dizziness, motion sickness, asthma, Parkinson's disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and various psychiatric disorders.

The potential health impact of loneliness includes a higher risk of heart disease, dementia, immune dysfunction, functional impairment and early death.

The study focuses on how older adults respond to changes in physical function - a little-studied and poorly understood topic.

Even healthy seniors need more protein than when they were younger to help preserve muscle mass, experts suggest.

Writing is, for Bennett, a necessity, the thing she wants to do more than anything during this last stage of her life. For decades, it's been her way of understanding the world - and herself.

An estimated 1 in 4 older adults take anticholinergic drugs - a wide-ranging class of medications used to treat allergies, insomnia, leaky bladders, diarrhea, dizziness, motion sickness, asthma, Parkinson's disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and various psychiatric disorders.

The potential health impact of loneliness includes a higher risk of heart disease, dementia, immune dysfunction, functional impairment and early death.

The study focuses on how older adults respond to changes in physical function - a little-studied and poorly understood topic.

Even healthy seniors need more protein than when they were younger to help preserve muscle mass, experts suggest.

Writing is, for Bennett, a necessity, the thing she wants to do more than anything during this last stage of her life. For decades, it's been her way of understanding the world - and herself.