012 – Q&A: Answers to Your Questions On Aging & Health

In This Episode:

Dr. K answers nine audience questions related to the health of older adults:

How many extra opinions to get from different doctors when you have a serious condition?
What causes legs to feel unbalanced and prone to falling?
How to deal with declining abilities, dementia, and physical dependency when you don’t have family to provide care or money to hire someone?
Is there a way to recapture sexual activity after three impotent years?
Why doesn’t Medicare cover hearing aids?
Why is it so difficult for people to admit they are aging and why do we shove aging people aside? What can be done about this, to help us prepare for an aging society?
Is chronic muscle pain an indication of old age and is it bad to ignore it?
What does conservative treatment for severe chronic kidney disease involve and what happens if you decide to not start dialysis?
What is normal aging in the area of memory loss?

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