Is Your Favorite Free Agent Over the Hill?
With baseball's Winter Meetings only a few days away, the free-agent market is beginning to gather momentum. It's an exciting time for fans to constru...
With baseball's Winter Meetings only a few days away, the free-agent market is beginning to gather momentum. It's an exciting time for fans to constru...
Is there a woman on the planet who doesn't get nervous the first time she meets her fiance's mom? But not only was I meeting my future in- law, I was being introduced to Alzheimer's.
The Issue Daily aspirin and heart disease The Facts Kids are told that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but for many grownups the message is qui...
Many women come to their doctors for other symptoms, but eventually focus on how they feel about the role appearance has or had in their lives. Therapists call this important step the "uh oh moment."
As the decade comes to a close, it's worth taking a nostalgic look back at what we lived through in the first 10 years of the new century. A list of t...
You have heard it said a thousand times that such and such got better with age. Well in the case of the 84 year old Hal Holbrook in the new film, That Evening Sun it is true.
Living longer means more years to learn, work, play and enjoy time with those we love. However, there's also the increased possibility of health problems along the way.
Myers says that we can locate virtues inside our bodies. For example, she houses courage in her diaphragm. That's where she goes to find the energy to do a handstand in Yoga.
What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?
This is the first of three articles on what helps keep bones healthy and strong -- and what does not. We will be covering both prevention of and treatment for osteoporosis for women as well as men.
I have a bumper sticker that says, "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan may look old to you, but he's probably too busy being born to care.
Do you think you can dance? Wait till you see the lady in this video!
The elderly have lost the vigor and mental agility they had as young adults and while it's nice that they have more experience and wisdom, they don't have the strength to do much with it.
At a time when we need family and community solidarity more than ever, we are witnessing a growing wave of age-based debate and controversy.
Time colors and shades memories in many ways. So, although I think that I remember clearly the day that my family moved into our "new" apartment on November 1957, I probably don't.
I hit the big "four O" last year and -- let's face it -- you start to question a few things when you get to that no-longer-in-my-thirties place in life.
I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).
We've all been conditioned to look upon time as our enemy. This belief is wrong, but it's so deeply ingrained that if affects even the most gifted people.
I'm caught between a lingering fantasy of a Roman Holiday, and the aspirations of a Care Consultant who hopes I am infirm enough to require batteries for effective locomotion. Goodness, what an awkward age!
The dollar costs of caring for the increasing numbers of elderly Americans expected to develop Alzheimer's dementia over the next 30 years will decimate the personal savings of millions of families.
For the first time in history, one-half of all U.S. workers are women, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of American families.