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11 Life Lessons For 50-Somethings

Posted 05.08.2013 | OWN

By Lisa Kogan The O writer and author of the book Someone Will Be with You Shortly shares her thrive guide to life after 50. I watched the moon ...

5 Ways To Age Backward

Rob White | Posted 04.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Rob White

You've probably heard expressions like "60 is the new 40." The truth is actually that anyone can roll the clock back. All you need is a motivational mindset. Then you, too, can start counting the calendar backwards at each birthday.

Curl Up And Dye?

Caragh Little | Posted 01.24.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Caragh Little

This weekend, it was time to get those grey hairs seen to again... to add a bit of gloss and shine and make myself feel better. It's 2012. Almost 2013. I'm older than I could ever imagine being when all my classmates were watching Dallas long ago... and now Dallas is back, and I'm still determined to feel young.

Is Human Longevity Due to Grandmothers or Older Fathers?

Rob Brooks | Posted 12.31.2012 | Science
Rob Brooks

Why do humans tend to live such a long time? Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, can last into their mid-forties in the wild. Yet somewhere in the last six million years, human lifespans have lengthened dramatically, so that living into our seventies is no big surprise.

Harnessing the Potential of Older People

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 12.12.2012 | World
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

In every continent and almost every country, our population is growing older. Yet, there is little sign so far that all the right policies and actions needed have been put in place to create a world in which all generations can flourish.

Dialogue with Time -- An Exhibition about the Art of Ageing

Andreas Heinecke | Posted 11.10.2012 | Impact
Andreas Heinecke

Dialogue in the Dark is my brainchild. It's a simple concept: the blind leading the sighted ones in the dark.

How To Live Forever*

XPRIZE | Posted 11.04.2012 | Healthy Living
XPRIZE

The retreat of my hairline and the arrival of my AARP card led me to examine the most fundamental human connection of all -- life itself. I decided to indulge my life-long fascination with health by making a documentary, How To Live Forever*.

A Surprising Reason Getting Older Is Hard

Debbie Leon | Posted 10.29.2012 | Fifty
Debbie Leon

Among the indignities of getting older, the minute I turned 50 I started getting insulted by my mail.

Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So Are The Days Of My Thighs

John Carroll | Posted 09.16.2012 | Gay Voices
John Carroll

The idea of time marching on (over my face) and leaving the wreckage of beloved things like dance and smooth skin in its wake not only scares the bejesus out of me but brings up so many ugly issues I have with getting older. Grandma Moses, party of one!

Going Dutch

Michael Hodin | Posted 06.30.2012 | Fifty
Michael Hodin

If the Dutch can manage to bring their forward-thinking social sensibility together with their fiscal prudence, they may end up setting a model that the rest of Europe and the world can follow.

You're Never Too Old To Windmill

CNN | Posted 05.29.2012 | Fifty

This week, CNN is telling the stories of members of the boomer generation who are aging, but not old, in a series called 'Age Against The Machine.' In...

How This Seal May Help Older Americans

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012 | Fifty

(Reuters) - Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of me...

Should You Move In With Your Aging Parent?

Forbes | Posted 04.10.2012 | Fifty

Victoria is at her wit’s end. After a struggle with deciding how to best care for her Dad, 86, she moved him to assisted living. She’s beginning ...

What Joan Lunden Calls The 'Next Big Health Crisis'

CNN | Posted 04.09.2012 | Fifty

Money was no object when the time came for Joan Lunden to find a senior care facility for her 88-year-old mother. For years, the former host of "Good...

Health and Work in the Age of Aging

Michael Hodin | Posted 06.06.2012 | Fifty
Michael Hodin

As life-spans routinely stretch into the 80s and 90s and as birth rates continue to drop to unprecedented lows, the importance of maintaining health as we age becomes even more crucial.

Ageless Beauty

Karen Cummings-Palmer | Posted 06.04.2012 | Women
Karen Cummings-Palmer

Another year is another opportunity to step or dance toward a better version of yourself and those little marks of humanity -- that's humility. I call it Ageless Beauty and that's worth fighting for.

No Country for Old Women: Demi Moore & Our Fear of Aging

Anushay Hossain | Posted 04.10.2012 | Women
Anushay Hossain

Abandonment coupled with age in a town like Hollywood makes us feel sorry for Moore, but deep down we are actually terrified because we know what happened to her can happen to us.

Give Me Straight Hair... Or Give Me Death

Phyllis Berger | Posted 12.05.2011 | Fifty
Phyllis Berger

Figuring out how to embrace a somewhat disheveled outside in favor of a more loving, healthier inside seems to be the task of this just-past-middle-age stage in my life.

Women's Relationships Aren't Age-Specific Anymore

Kristen Houghton | Posted 09.30.2011 | Women
Kristen Houghton

It isn't uncommon for women to have friends of all ages, to share ideas and interests, and enjoy the special female bond. Age-specific lifestyles are part of a bygone era. The only relationships that matter enhance you and make you happy to be part of them.

Aging With Courage: The Beginning Of A Living Faith

Lynn Casteel Harper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Lynn Casteel Harper

Joining in the struggle to come to terms with what it means to be humans shaped by the streams of time is the way of courage and the beginning of a living faith.

The Passing Of Time And The Chapel Of The Soul

Matt Idom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Matt Idom

What seems like a temporary eternity in life and circumstances teeters before the next shift of wind.

Sporting Heroes: Do We Need Them?

Alan Elsner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Alan Elsner

At some point. I stopped having sports heroes. Their time on the stage is so brief and what awaits many after they retire from the game is a lifetime of sore limbs and decades of anti-climax.

The Aging of America: Triumph or Tragedy? (VIDEO)

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

Can our country afford to have tens of millions of us living to 80? Or 100? Will existing pensions and entitlement programs survive long enough for us to reap even part of what we are hoping for?

OLDEST Public Company CEOs In America

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

By 24/7 Wall Street -- The official retirement age for executives at many large U.S. corporations has been 65 for several decades -- unless the execu...

The Ravages Of Time

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stephanie Gertler

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.