Google "the aging brain" and you will find a largely sobering landscape of cognitive deterioration.
The Census Bureau released data Wednesday that shows there are more people 65 and older than ever before in the United States.
When an old widower from the central Chinese city of Wuhan went into hospital last summer because of a persistent high fever, he was diagnosed with the AIDS virus -- and made national news.
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Elizabeth Cohen reports on a new study that says genes may be the only secret to a really long life.
As Dorrie Aber-Noyek enters the cafeteria at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, the staff bursts into a round of "Happy Birthday."
A Brazilian woman ranked by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person died Tuesday at the age of 114.
Their stories have been of loss and of resilience.
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Japan's NHK reports stranded staff and elderly nursing home residents are running out of food.
Chatting on a cell phone while attempting to cross the street may be particularly hazardous for older adults, a new study suggests.
For the elderly, state budget cuts could mean no more daily hot meals and exercise classes to help prevent falls. At worst, some could even lose their beds at the nursing home.
updated: Wed Mar 02 2011 21:41:00
Entertainment legend Mickey Rooney shares his personal story of elder abuse and how he was able to overcome it.
Grimacing with emotion, entertainment legend Mickey Rooney implored a Senate committee on Wednesday to stop what experts call chronic emotional, physical, sexual and financial abuse of elderly Americans by family members and other caregivers.
For 93-year-old widow Liu Bingdi, the Chinese lunar New Year is the happiest time of the year. "It's a time when we all gather for family reunion," says Mrs. Liu.
updated: Tue Feb 01 2011 21:10:00
The oldest living person in the world, Eunice Sanborn of Jacksonville, Texas, passed away Monday. KLTV reports.
The world's oldest person, as verified by the Guinness Book of World Records, is dead at the age of 114, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
As some people struggle through painful or stressful family reunions during the holidays, many seniors may be enjoying their relationships.
Of all the flash points in the debate over Social Security, few generate as much heat as raising the retirement age.
If celebrating triple-digit birthdays sounds appealing, scientists may be able to determine if you're likely to live that long.
In early 1934, Depression-weary Americans were beginning to see tendrils of hope poking out of the bleak landscape. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was bringing the economy back from the dead. Galvanized by the sight of elderly women scrounging for food from garbage, California physician Francis Townsend had launched a crusade for government-funded pensions that would soon spur the creation of Social Security. Things were even looking up for the long-suffering Washington Senators, who had made it to the World Series the previous fall.
Last Christmas, Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Dennis Engelhard was putting flares near a minor accident on a snowy road in Eureka when he was hit by a car and killed.
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The sexuality of a former Air Force staff sergeant was revealed after she was outed by police in South Dakota.
British pensioner Ethel Kendall was "only 72" when she left the United Kingdom in 1986 to be closer to her family in Canada. At the time, she was receiving the full British pension of just over £38 ($58) a week.
Richard Rose used to challenge his wife, Joyce, if he thought she was misstating something, but these days he lets it go.
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We are bad at predicting what will make us happy. In a 2006 special Dr. Sanjay Gupta looked at what actually works.
Want to keep your wits sharp as the years go by? You're not alone. Most people are worried about losing their memory as they age, and a new study shows it's a valid concern: In fact, at 53 percent -- more than half of all people -- have at least a minor mental decline in their 70s and 80s, and about 16 percent develop more serious problems with memory and other mental functions as they age.
I once attended a Navajo blessing ceremony, held in a tepee on the red sand of the Sonoran desert.
I was talking to a close family friend during my vacation in Florida, and he was criticizing the governor there for taking the stimulus money that came from the federal government.
Every weekday, Eva Gomez walks down the block to the Fox Point Senior Center to eat her one hot daily meal, exercise and chat with friends. Otherwise, she's cooped up in her Providence, R.I., apartment with little more than crackers and a cup of coffee or tea.
Playing the Nintendo Wii Fit could improve balance and help avoid falls in seniors, researchers taking part in a new study suggest.
Age-related macular degeneration is a baby-boomer disease that, according to the American Medical Association, affects more than 10 million Americans. It is one of the leading causes of blindness for people over age 65. A study published in the July 2007 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology found that current smokers are four times more likely to develop this eye problem than nonsmokers.
When Stephen Leach gave up his Rockaway, New Jersey, condo at age 48 to move back in with Mom and Dad, it was out of need -- his parents', not his.
Costs for nursing homes, assisted living facilities and some in-home care services have increased for a fifth consecutive year, and could rise further if a shortage of long-term care workers isn't resolved
Question: I started collecting Social Security last year, but I'm still working and Social Security payroll taxes are still being deducted from my earnings. Am I entitled to have my Social Security benefit recalculated based on the payroll taxes I've been paying since I've begun collecting? - Ken Kass
Older woman seduces younger man. Sound familiar? It's a scene from the 1967 coming-of-age classic "The Graduate."
WHEN JOHN AND MARY OWEN went house hunting in Santa Ana, Calif. eight years ago, they looked for a home with enough extra space to accommodate at least one of their elderly parents. That choice proved fortuitous. Shortly after they moved in, Mary's mother, Gerry Cooley, came to live with them for good. In 2000, John's mother, Fern, helped finance a $100,000 renovation to transform half of the Owens' 3,200-square-foot basement into a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment, complete with a kitchen and laundry room. Eighteen months ago it became a permanent home for both Cooley and Fern Owen, now 83 and 92. "It's been an adjustment, " says John, "but now I couldn't imagine living any other way."
As baby boomers reach retirement, an unsettling issue grows ever more pressing: finding the work force to tend to the millions of boomers who will someday need ongoing care because of physical and mental frailties
To: Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani, John Edwards, John McCain, et al.
When Allison Gage gave birth to her first child three years ago in Minneapolis, it should have been a joyful moment. Instead, she was worried sick about her elderly parents, Baldwin and Linda Yeung. The couple live 2,000 miles away in Sonoma, Calif. and hadn't returned any of her phone calls.
Currently, most of us reach our physical peak between twenty and thirty and begin a steady decline after that. By seventy, we have lost 40 percent of our maximum breathing capacity, muscle and bone mass have declined, body fat has increased, and sight and hearing have gotten worse. We may want to chase life and live longer, but not at the expense of function, both of mind and body.
Dr. Thomas Perls is a leading expert on aging, so I was a little nervous when he arrived recently at my house at 6:20 a.m. He was there to assess how the daily decisions I'm making are affecting my life expectancy.
For most of human history, long life was exceedingly rare.
You're rushing to drop the kids at school, fumbling with coats and lunch boxes, when you get the call. Mom's had a fall, and she's in the E.R. Your dad is panicked and asking you to come home, now.
For some, the search for the fountain of youth means downing fruit-flavored potions they believe give them more energy. Others look for it in the creams and lotions they rub on their crows' feet in hopes that the wrinkles will magically disappear. Still, there are those of us who think a true fountain of youth would deliver the answer to one of the mysteries of middle-age life: Where did I put my car keys?
How long would these drugs let us live?
When David Harrill's aging mother-in-law moved in earlier this year, he knew one consideration trumped all others: Don't mess with her bridge game.
The week after Labor Day, I got down to some serious retirement planning: I raced in five events at the 2006 World Masters Rowing Regatta, a competition that attracts some 3,000 rowers with an aver...
It's no surprise that healthcare costs are soaring. The cost of a nursing home today is about $71,000 annually, or about $200 a day. The cost for assisted living is about $32,000 a year or $88 dollars a day.
Since the U.S. population crossed the 200 million mark in 1967, America has grown into a more sprawling, more southern and western, suburban nation with more crowded highways.
You know you're officially part of a trend when someone gives you a catchy label, and there's a new one out there: the 60-year-old kid. It means someone who is just short of retirement age and stil...
You know you're officially part of a trend when someone gives you a catchy label, and there's a new one out there: the 60-year-old kid.
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Like the estimated 34 million Americans now caring for an aging loved one, you may be worried that one day soon your mom or dad will need your help. Maybe you've already spotted a few warning signs...
Like the estimated 34 million Americans now caring for an aging loved one, you may be worried that one day soon your mom or dad will need your help.
Dr. Andrew Weil is arguably America's foremost practitioner of alternative medicine, or as he likes to call it, integrative medicine.
Dr. Andrew Weil is arguably America's foremost practitioner of alternative medicine, or as he likes to call it, integrative medicine. He believes the key to a long and healthy life lies in staying active, eating more fruit and grains, and practicing massage and meditation in order to shed stress.
An estimated 5 million Americans currently care for an aging family member who lives at least an hour away. If you're among them, you know that the emotional, physical and financial toll can be ste...
An estimated 5 million Americans currently care for an aging family member who lives at least an hour away.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - There's been a lot of talk lately about eliminating the cap on wages subject to the Social Security payroll tax.
Within seconds of waking to the phone ringing at 2 a.m. on a chilly night in late October, Bill Hanrahan knew what the call was about. It was the same call he'd received at least once a week for mo...
In industry jargon, the need for long-term health care is considered "an insurable event." But for Blanche Hamilton, the need was called Mom. "There is no way to describe how awful it is to watch s...
Absent-mindedly stroking his Rip Van Winkle beard, Aubrey de Grey recalls when he first realized how humans might halt the process of growing old. His "Eureka!" came at a research meeting in Califo...
The power of wishful thinking guarantees that just about anything can be successfully marketed as an elixir of youth. Pee, for instance. A multitude of websites extol the ability of "urine therapy"...
Has a financial adviser suggested a long-term-care policy as part of your retirement plan? Perhaps you've watched an elderly parent struggle to pay for nursing care and wondered whether there's a b...
Driving west into the desert from Phoenix on U.S. 60, the history of retirement in America passes before your eyes, shimmering in the 93[degrees]F heat. First comes Sun City (pop. 46,000), the prot...
Time was, Americans grew old at home. When our health failed, we could rely on our family to prepare meals or pay a visit, dispensing equal measures of care and comfort. Most of us still cling to t...
I am 34 years old. On the face of it, there is nothing particularly interesting about this fact--certainly nothing unusual. By current U.S. Census estimates, there are approximately 4 million 34-ye...
When do you think about retirement? During idle moments, when thoughts turn to chucking your job and heading to the beach? Or is it every time you buy a stock, pay your mortgage, start a new job or...
Larry Ellison has the good life down pat--health, youthful good looks, vast wealth, a fast sailboat, airplanes, and more gorgeous amours than a Hollywood hunk. But like every potentate from King Tu...
Margie White ran for the phone. It was the summer of 1993. White, her husband and two teenage sons had just moved back to Plano, Texas, near their families. There were boxes everywhere. The kids ha...
Baby-boomers have ushered in most every major trend over the past 50 years. But it was their grandparents who initiated the most radical demographic change of the past half-century--a dramatic decl...
Chin up, fellow boomers, aging has its compensations. Our fingernails are growing slower, so we don't need to clip them as often. Our sweat glands are waning, so we have less body odor to worry abo...
We all know who Peter Drucker is. He's the original management guru and also, without a doubt, the most prescient business-trend spotter of our time. In the early 1950s he was among the first to di...
Plan as you may, it pays to remember the poignant line from poet Robert Burns, pointing to the "best-laid schemes o' mice and men," which often go awry. Could your retirement plan be on a similar c...
If you think of retirement as a nice, tranquil place where you can stretch out and finally breathe easy, you'd better put your ear to the ground.
Everyone has a dream they'd like the stock market to fulfill--a vacation home, a child's education, a peaceful retirement. Yet identifying the companies that can provide such long-term riches is a ...
This special section is devoted to retirement issues: what you'll need, how to invest wisely, where to live, and who's doing retirement the right way.
FIVE YEARS AGO, STAN AND BETTY HIROTA OF OREGON CITY, ORE. got the phone call everyone with aging parents dreads. A cousin who lived near Stan's parents in Honolulu told Stan that his father, Eijir...
What's in and what's out with MONEY readers as 1996 begins? According to our mail, lavish spending is out, saving is in; complaining about debt is out, taking action to reduce it is in; and living ...
WHEN SHIRLEY HINTON LEARNED OF the double murder of her aunt Hazel Gleese and Hazel's husband Leo early this year, she suspected their preacher. "He promised to check on them every single day," she...
EXPERTS ON AGING FROM AROUND THE NATION HAVE HELPED MONEY create this regional guide to some of America's premier facilities for the elderly. Almost all have waiting lists ranging from a few weeks ...
Hope I die before I get old. PETE TOWNSHEND 1966
FIRST, a brief disclaimer from one of the country's top experts on aging. ''Life's a crapshoot,'' says the NIA's Dick Sprott. ''There aren't any guarantees.'' The odds get better, though, the longe...
T'S SUNDAY NIGHT. Time to make the weekly how're-you-doing phone call to your mother living alone back in Omaha. But when she finally answers, something is wrong. Her speech is labored and slurred,...
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST crucial issues facing U.S. society. But hardly a politician will even talk about the subject, much less propose remedies for it. The problem? Simply put, America is spending t...
Few families are closer than the Lifsons of Hopkins, Minn. With Laurel, 40, and Scott, 39, living just a block away from Laurel's parents, Efrom and Honee Abramson, ages 73 and 71, the two couples ...
AGE HEALTHFULLY, retire earlier, and bank on ever richer government benefits. For nearly 50 years, political leaders in North America, Japan, and Europe have promised their citizens varying version...
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, helped inspire the feminist movement by attacking the home-centered roles that discouraged women from seeking broader opportunities. Now Fr...
Most conventional wisdom is harmless enough when it's wrong. So what if the early bird doesn't catch the worm? At least he'll catch the sunrise. But running your financial life on cliches can be ha...
For an idea of your employer-paid health insurance coverage in retirement, consider what it is now. Chances are your company has been tinkering with your medical benefits lately, adding an option h...
A recent survey found that, of the 3.7 million American families now taking care of an elderly relative or friend, more than a third get no assistance from any outside service, agency or home healt...
When his wife died three years ago, Robert Shimmin, called Bob-Bob by his friends and relatives, moved out of his San Diego home and in with his son Phil's family in Woodland Hills, Calif. Reliant ...
THE FUTURE has arrived and is available for viewing in Florida, where 18% of the residents are over 65. That's what the elderly population of the whole U.S. will amount to in 30 years; it's 12% now...
It is an article of faith in America -- and an explicit mandate of the Bill of Rights -- that no citizen may be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. But consider the fo...
Psychiatric social worker Phyllis Sharlin, 45, of Potomac, Md. helps people solve personal problems for a living. But she was at a loss for a solution when her own arthritic 79-year-old mother Bert...
In a democracy, any group that claims to represent extraordinary numbers merits close scrutiny. By that standard, then, the American Association of Retired Persons deserves to be one of the most ca...
Like many other nonprofit organizations, AARP needs money. But instead of hawking museum replicas, AARP sells $106 million worth of products and services ranging from angina medications to tours of...
Retirement is a word that never furrowed the brow of pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Lobster, caviar and beautiful women probably should have, but Rubinstein nonetheless performed for two robust decades...
MOST PEOPLE'S foremost fear in planning their retirement is simply outliving their money. Yet that terror can be tamed by Social Security, a pension and a well-planned program of personal savings a...
A PIG IN A PYTHON is what demographers whimsically call the baby boom, that troublesome lump of 75 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. Almost one-third of the population today, the boomer...
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