Head injuries can take their toll on seniors due to their debilitating effects. Luckily, older adults can use protective headgear and take other steps for safety. Let’s take a look at ways you can ensure head protection for seniors.
Consequences of Head Injuries
When the elderly fall and hit their heads on hard surfaces or experience other types of trauma, they can endure severe consequences. These include:
Head injuries can take their toll on seniors due to their debilitating effects. Luckily, older adults can use protective headgear and take other steps for safety. Let’s take a look at ways you can ensure head protection for seniors.
Consequences of Head Injuries
When the elderly fall and hit their heads on hard surfaces or experience other types of trauma, they can endure severe consequences. These include:
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I was twenty-four my best friend died suddenly in a car accident. She was like a sister to me, so this plunged me into a deep depression. I had struggled with depression since I was about fourteen, but it became much worse after she passed away.
At times suicide honestly seemed like the best possible solution to what I felt like I knew was going to be another fifty years of sadness. I wasn’t depressed every day, and there were weeks and months when it seemed like things were getting better. But the depression always seemed to come back and it was wearing me down.
Despair
In Andrew Solomon’s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501123882/…
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I was twenty-four my best friend died suddenly in a car accident. She was like a sister to me, so this plunged me into a deep depression. I had struggled with depression since I was about fourteen, but it became much worse after she passed away.
At times suicide honestly seemed like the best possible solution to what I felt like I knew was going to be another fifty years of sadness. I wasn’t depressed every day, and there were weeks and months when it seemed like things were getting better. But the depression always seemed to come back and it was wearing me down.
Despair
In Andrew Solomon’s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501123882/…
“My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered,” Ron Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, wrote of his father’s performance during the first 1984 presidential debate.
At the time, there had long been rumors that Reagan was suffering from cognitive i…
“My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered,” Ron Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, wrote of his father’s performance during the first 1984 presidential debate.
At the time, there had long been rumors that Reagan was suffering from cognitive i…
Are you experiencing poor vision in low lighting? Do you have to turn on overhead lights when a lamp used to be sufficient?
How about the glare you’ve been seeing as a car approaches you while driving at night, or the halo that appears around car headlights or streetlights?
Do you have what appears to be “washed out” color vision, blurred vision, or are you seeing double images?
Low contrast sensitivity is another problem many people experience. Can you read black print on a blue background, or can you see the contour of a dark-colored car while driving at night?
Are you noticing a yellowing or darkening of things around you?
If you …
Are you experiencing poor vision in low lighting? Do you have to turn on overhead lights when a lamp used to be sufficient?
How about the glare you’ve been seeing as a car approaches you while driving at night, or the halo that appears around car headlights or streetlights?
Do you have what appears to be “washed out” color vision, blurred vision, or are you seeing double images?
Low contrast sensitivity is another problem many people experience. Can you read black print on a blue background, or can you see the contour of a dark-colored car while driving at night?
Are you noticing a yellowing or darkening of things around you?
If you …
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Much research in recent years has investigated genetically modifying adenoviruses to kill cancers, with some currently being tested in clinical trials. When injected, these adenoviruses replicate inside cancer cells and kill them. Scientists are trying to design more efficient viruses, which are better able to target cancer cells while leaving normal cells a…
One of the many interesting approaches to targeting cancer cells for destruction is the use of viruses that are largely innocuous to humans, but replicate preferentially in cells exhibiting the characteristics of cancer, such as continual cellular replication. Researchers here demonstrate a way to engineer a virus to require the biochemistry of cell replication for it to also replicate, ensuring that it will affect only cancerous tissue.
Much research in recent years has investigated genetically modifying adenoviruses to kill cancers, with some currently being tested in clinical trials. When injected, these adenoviruses replicate inside cancer cells and kill them. Scientists are trying to design more efficient viruses, which are better able to target cancer cells while leaving normal cells a…