Category: Aging
How to be fit in your 60s and beyond
If you’re fit, keep building meaningful physical activity into your day. If you’re not, even reducing time spent sitting and doing a little exercise will have major health benefits
Age-Proofing a Home Doesn’t Come Cheap
Aging in place is a major financial commitment, one that may be at odds with retirees’ plans to downsize their lives and budgets.
As Rural Groceries Fade Away, Lawmakers Wonder Whether to Act
Rural, isolated areas lack public transportation. Traveling can be tough on the poor and seniors. Grocery delivery services aren’t widely available.
On-Site Health Care Could Help Seniors Stay at Home
Many seniors want to stay in their homes, but can’t when they grow older and more infirm. A pilot project aims to provide services needed to make that possible.
In Search Of Age-Friendly Health Care, Finding Room For Improvement
For older adults, health care facilities can be difficult to navigate and, occasionally, perilous.
Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
Millions of seniors across the country quietly go hungry as the safety net designed to catch them frays.
Getting Older, Going Broke: Who’s Going to Pay for Long-Term Care?
‘A Slow-Moving Train Wreck’: Most Americans don’t have long-term care insurance yet many will need it.
What exactly is a disease?
Seems like an easy question, until you take a closer look. Then things get messy. Measles is an easy call. What about obesity or the changes of normal aging?
How long can humans live?
The longest-lived person was Jeanne Calment of France. She died on August 4, 1997, aged 122 years, five months. But she’s unlikely to hold it for much longer.
Diseases through the decades: 40s, 50s, 60s …
Here’s what to look out for in your 40s, 60s, 80s and beyond