Monthly Archives: June 2013

Postpartum Depression: Are Older Mothers More at Risk?

It’s been said that forty is the new twenty when it comes to having babies. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, between 1980 and 2004 the number of women giving birth at age 30 doubled, at age 35 tripled and after age 40 almost quadrupled. And according to the Centers for Disease Control,…

New Research Highlights Relationship Between Depression and Dementia

Dementia is not a disease. It is a set of symptoms that might include varying degrees of memory loss, language difficulty, poor judgment, inability to concentrate, and impaired visual perception. Generally dementia is said to be present if two or more of these symptoms are present and severe enough to impair performance of everyday activities.…