Many people think they can plan on spending less later in retirement since they'll become less active as they age. But if their health declines, they may actually shift spending rather than reduce it. Do you think it's risky to plan as if one's expenses will go down later in retirement? --Tim, U.K.
The secret to a long, healthy life in America? According to longevity researchers, it may be to act like you live somewhere else.
Earlier this year, sociologist Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., watched President Barack Obama return to his hometown of Chicago to celebrate his 50th birthday. In the days that followed, Olshansky was struck by the amount of media coverage dedicated to a single question: When did Obama's hair get so gray?
Three cities in California are changing their environments to promote healthy lifestyles for everyone in the community.
Middle-aged women who drink alcohol in moderation have a better chance than nondrinkers of staying healthy as they age, especially if they spread out their consumption over most days of the week, a new study from Harvard researchers suggests.
No country has a higher life expectancy than Monaco -- and it's not even close.
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."
President Barack Obama has had the weight of the free world on his shoulders for 2½ years, and he might be starting to look like it.
Jennifer Hudson, OK Go and Herbie Hancock sing "Happy Birthday" to President Obama to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Should we control the spiraling cost of Medicare by raising its eligibility age from 65 to 67 or more? Many have argued that we should, because, they say, life expectancy today is much higher than when Medicare was created. The program was never designed to last so many years per person, and so, perhaps, people should retire later.
A report shows life span in the U.S. is falling behind other countries. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Life expectancy in most U.S. counties lags behind that of the world's healthiest nations, in some cases by 50 years or more, according to a new analysis of government data.
The anti-aging quest got some attention this week when actor/producer Ashton Kutcher was pictured in a British tabloid reading my book, The Youth Pill, on a beach next to his wife, actress Demi Moore. According to one account, Moore had given the book to Kutcher -- the smirking implication was that he needed all the help he could get as the aging consort of the seemingly immortal Demi. The uncannily svelte, 48-year-old mother of three was photographed in a skimpy black bikini, leaving no doubt about her all-around youthfulness.
For Tarah Epstein Baiman, parenting without having parents of her own to rely on is like "piloting a plane sans rudder." She learns to make adjustments without their guidance. Extra help comes from people and places she never imagined.
Of all the flash points in the debate over Social Security, few generate as much heat as raising the retirement age.
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.
National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner talks about finding the path to long life and health.
In the same way organisms select for characteristics that favor the survival and well-being of its species over successive generations, so too do cultures. With organisms, we call this process evolution and it represents a sort of accumulated wisdom. There is no word for this process in cultures, but there is one for the result. And that word is tradition.
CNN.com today featured a live Webcast of The Clinic, looking at how science is making progress in the quest for immortality.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta teams with anti-aging experts to bring you an in-depth discussion on the search for immortality.
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