How many times could you stand up from a chair and sit down again, without using your hands, in 30 seconds? The answer may indicate your ability to maintain independence in later life. The 30-second ...

There are many ways to tell if people are healthy. Some indicators of good health are so simplistic that you may never have heard of them. One of the simplest tests of health I know of is referred to ...

Failing a "sit-to-stand" or "sit-rise" test, which entails standing up from the floor with legs crossed, without using hands, arms, knees or side of the legs, means one has a higher likelihood of ...