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Your Thoughts Can Affect Your Mood: The Surprising Power of Daydreaming and Mind-Wandering

This is especially pressing given the global increase in mental-health challenges, compounded by the shortage and burnout of mental-health professionals. Given these challenges, we believe expanding mental-health approaches to include prevention, in addition to intervention, may be important.Our research shows that different types of thoughts are meaningfully tied to emotional well-being. By understanding these connections, individuals can identify new ways to support and improve their mental he...
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Do You Get Leg Pain When Walking? It Could Be Peripheral Artery Disease

Pain in your legs when you walk may seem like a normal part of getting older. But it can be a warning sign that the arteries carrying blood to your legs are becoming blocked: a condition called peripheral artery disease (PAD). If these blockages become severe, blood flow to the leg can suddenly be cut off, causing what is sometimes described as a “heart attack of the leg.”
The PAD burden is also not shared equally. People who smoke and have diabetes have the greatest risk of PAD, and it dispropo...
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Want a Sharper Brain? Try Learning Another Language

Concerns about memory and dementia can send aging adults looking for ways to exercise their brain and maintain cognitive function, whether it is solving crossword puzzles or playing a musical instrument. Language learning might not seem like the same kind of brain exercise, but it is a complex activity that engages several mental processes at once.Could all this mental activity also help keep an aging brain healthier? Research suggests it can.Learning another language is a highly complex mental...
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Dementia Care Puts Families in the Driver’s Seat – Whether They Like it or Not

Canada’s dementia strategies emphasize helping people live well at home for as long as possible. But for many people living with dementia, remaining at home relies almost entirely on the unpaid labour, financial sacrifices and persistence of family caregivers.
As health service researchers, we have spent decades studying systems of care for people living with dementia. Let’s look at the case of Margaret and Lisa, a fictional mother and daughter whose stories are based on the evidence we heard as...
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A Culture Obsessed With Youth Ignores the Many Benefits of Aging

The message is clear: aging is something to defeat. But science tells a more complicated story. While some aspects of functioning become less efficient with age, others remain remarkably resilient. Some even improve. Far from being a period of inevitable decline, research shows later life can bring a variety of unexpected strengths.Johnson has meticulously documented countless treatments in his biohacking regimen, including cosmetic enhancements, stem cell therapies, a total plasma replacement a...
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My Family’s Journey Through Long-Term Care

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was stepping into the difficult, unfamiliar role of caring for an aging parent, something many of us will eventually face. What followed was a crash course in navigating the health care and long-term care systems: from hospital stays and Alternative Level of Care units, to waitlists and bed offers, and difficult decisions. At 59 years old, I decided to go back to school to study journalism, something I’d thought about my entire life. I was still working par...
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Mirror, Mirror: How to Play up Your Eyes Without Playing Down your Age

If you want to look polished, use three shades: put the lightest colour on the lid, the mid-tone in and just above the crease, and the darkest on the outer third and around the lash line for definition. Matte shadows or ones with a light sheen are the way to go, as shimmer accentuates fine lines.  
Shadow sticks are also a great option; they’re fun and easy to apply. Again, look for ones with minimal to no shimmer. Laura Mercier Caviar Sticks, for example, are a cult favourite and particularly s...
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Mirror, Mirror: How to Make Your Lips Look Fuller and More Luscious With a Few Clever Tricks

Canadian makeup guru, Tana D’Amico, joins The Zoomerist to share her secrets for enhancing your beauty at every age and stage.
With age, our lips do two things: they become less defined around the edges and lose volume. To restore some of that lost shape and make them look fuller, pick a lip liner that is close to your natural shade and use it to carefully overdraw your lip line. If you look closely – either in good light or with a magnifying mirror – there is a thin white line surrounding our l...
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Mirror, Mirror: How to Create Flawless, Full Brows

Canadian makeup guru, Tana D’Amico, joins The Zoomerist to share her secrets for enhancing your beauty at every age and stage.
As we age, our facial features naturally begin to change. Eyebrows become sparser, lips lose volume and the skin on our face and around our eyes become less taut. As a result we lose some of the definition and structure we once had. But rather than fight it, enhance it. There are easy ways to modify your makeup to look and feel your most fabulous. 
Filling in our eyebrow...
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Here’s How to Look Fresh and Pulled Together in 5 Minutes

For quick blending, fingers work best; otherwise, use a foundation or concealer brush. In either case, start by placing the product on the back of your hand (it’s the cleanest part!) as a palette, then pick it up with your middle and index fingers and apply it. This helps avoid applying too much product directly to the skin – especially under your eyes. 
Our brows and lashes thin over time, so adding definition helps provide structure to the face, in turn making us look more awake and lifted. Us...
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Mirror, Mirror: How to Use Contouring to Counteract Gravity’s Pull, Enhance your Best Features and Look Photo Fresh

Canadian makeup guru Tana D’Amico joins The Zoomerist to share her secrets for enhancing your beauty at every age and stage.
Contouring sculpts features by shading and illuminating, using darker shades to create shadow and lighter shades to highlight. It doesn’t have to be extreme, a la Kardashian, but this technique can be used to subtly enhance certain features while minimizing others. 
There are different tricks for contouring different face shapes. For a square face, use contour to shave a l...
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Mirror, Mirror: How to Use Blush to Brighten up Your Complexion and Give a Healthy Glow

Canadian makeup guru Tana D’Amico joins The Zoomerist to share her secrets for enhancing your beauty at every age and stage.
Rosy cheeks are timeless. However, the important thing with blush is placement. For a classic, glamorous look, apply blush to your cheekbones, starting in line with your irises. Then, sweep the colour outwards towards your temples and up towards the hairline. Cream or powder blushes with blurring features work best on mature skin. Avoid overly matte powders that can look c...