Derek Winslow

Derek Winslow covers heart and circulatory health for For Seniors Magazine, focusing on the early warning signs older adults tend to miss, from peripheral artery disease to the medication interactions that quietly complicate long-term prescriptions. He also writes about the sleep disruptions, bone density changes, and gut health issues that become more common with age, along with the everyday habits that can help seniors stay social, mobile, and out of the hospital longer. Derek's approach is to translate clinical research into plain-language guidance readers can actually use, whether that means a question to bring to their next doctor's visit or a small daily change worth trying first. When he's not writing, Derek spends his weekends fly-fishing on a stretch of river not far from his house and restoring old furniture in his garage workshop, a slower pace of life he's come to appreciate more with each passing year. He's partial to flea markets and estate sales, where he tends to find most of the pieces he ends up refinishing, and he keeps a running list of projects waiting for a rainy weekend. Derek also coaches a neighborhood kids' baseball team in the spring, and he says trading advice with the other parents on the sidelines is its own kind of continuing education.

Derek Winslow

Heart & Circulatory Health Medication Safety Sleep & Bone Health Healthy Aging Habits

When he's not writing, Derek spends his weekends fly-fishing on a stretch of river not far from his house and restoring old furniture in his garage workshop, a slower pace of life he's come to appreciate more with each passing year. He's partial to flea markets and estate sales, where he tends to find most of the pieces he ends up refinishing, and he keeps a running list of projects waiting for a rainy weekend. Derek also coaches a neighborhood kids' baseball team in the spring, and he says trading advice with the other parents on the sidelines is its own kind of continuing education.