<p>Digital voice recorder or smartphone apps can improve prospective memory function, QOL in older adults with mild cognitive disorders</p>
<p>Associations of housework with physical function and sensorimotor performance were intensity-dependent</p>
<p>Life-space assessments may help older adults better understand how cancer treatment impacts their lives, authors say</p>
<p>History of childhood abuse or intimate partner violence linked to greater depression, anxiety, and sleep problems during COVID-19 pandemic</p>
<p>Sleep disturbance in older adults also more common among those living with a partner and urinating at night</p>
<p>Biggest increases seen among Black, Hispanic individuals, although they were less likely to be living alone</p>
<p>Authors say physicians should screen and counsel older adults on alcohol use</p>
<p>Loneliness associated with use of NSAIDs, pain medicine, sedatives, anti-anxiety meds, and antidepressants</p>
<p>18.3 percent of respondents aged 50 to 80 years reported worse mental health; 29.0 percent made a lifestyle change to address mental health</p>
<p>Antidepressant therapy more effective than supervised physical activity at three and six months</p>