What You Don't Know About Osteoporosis
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.
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.
Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
Do you think you can dance? Wait till you see the lady in this video!
Alana B. Elias Kornfeld | Posted 10.31.2009 | Living
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.
Jim Selman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
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.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
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.
Jim Selman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
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.).
reuters.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
People who keep doing some work in their field after they retire may enjoy better physical and mental health than those who stop work completely or sw...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
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.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
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!
Politics Daily | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Even with a half century's hindsight, the U.S. government's willingness to risk the health of the nation's children seems somewhere between unfathomab...
Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
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.
Susan Harrow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Leadership expert, triathlete and mother of quadruplets, twins and three other children, DeeDee Myers is never without lipstick in her purse. She's always prepared, always presentable, no matter what.
New York Times City Room | Sarah Maslin Nir | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
It is an interesting dichotomy - one group seems to open with age, the other seems to close. With openness, it seems that death is much less frightening as if it is merely another viewpoint of sorts.
Holly Robinson | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
Our first morning at Berkshire Vista Resort, my friend Mandy sleeps late while I muster the courage to leave our room. The question isn't so much what to wear, here, as what not to wear.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
Roth is 76 now. He's outlived all of his rivals. He's our most prominent novelist. And over 30 books, he's learned how to disturb us -- and keep us reading.
Nelson Montana | Posted 10.12.2009 | Style
I had considered surgery, but after some investigation I decided it wasn't the way to go. Face-lifts on men don't fare as well as with women.
Jim Selman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
My focus is on working to transform the culture of aging so that our later years in life are as meaningful and filled with possibility as when we were younger.
Gail Lynne Goodwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
The more people I meet, I'm convinced there is no age that's young or old, but rather, people that choose to be young or old. Age is nothing more than an attitude that we get to choose.
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living
This year's Nobel prize for medicine goes to three US-based researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic cod...
Dr. Maoshing Ni | Posted 10.04.2009 | Living
While modern medicine has neglected to address the effects of aging in any meaningful and fundamental way, Chinese Longevity Medicine has been making qualitative differences in improving the undesirable effects of aging in patients for centuries.
Darryle Pollack | Posted 10.03.2009 | Style
Grace Coddington of Vogue has it all: talent, power, courage, confidence, and comfortable shoes.
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
LONDON — Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say ...
Mark Miller | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
The Great Recession is pushing older workers to postpone retirement, but will employers accommodate them?
Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
Older adults are developing new values and new perspectives: redefining self, relationships, and fundamental existential questions like time, space, life, and death.
Joseph Sciabbarrasi, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living