I'm going to be brave here and tell you exactly what I fear about my dating life now that I'm over 50. I'm terrified there's no one out there for me. That no one who can put up with my nuttiness, my anxieties, my insecurities, my moodiness.

The shape of a person's spinal column may predict their risk for disability in old age, and thus their need for home assistance, new research has foun...

Who are your elder heroes? Who inspires you on the next stage of our life journey?

This being the Lenten season, many Roman Catholic parishes have Friday evening fish fries. They are social events open to the public. For years, memb...

If you're like me, you've already experienced some of the difficulties associated with aging: weird moles, sagging everything, the death of people you love. I've been comforted by the fact that, any day now, I will wake up bathed in the glow of wisdom that is supposed to be the payoff for all this crap. Instead, I seem to be getting dumber.

When he passed away at the age of 90 on October 21st of this year, McGovern was eloquently praised by individuals from across the political spectrum.

If you could read only two pages of The New York Times, which would you choose? I would choose the front page and the obituary page. When I come home from a trip, I dash through the papers and scan those two pages. I have to know who, among my friends and acquaintances, kicked the bucket.

What can you tell me about longevity annuities? I come from a family with long life expectancies and I would like to protect myself from running out of money in my old age.

The story of what happened the night the family returned home from the hospital after Grandpa Joe's death is quite amazing.

Imagine living in a place that seems more like fantasy than reality....

The kind young woman asked my mom if she wanted to talk about dying. When my mother replied no, the young woman asked, "Doesn't it worry you when you think about dying?" My mother replied, "No, I just don't think about it."

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a new film set in India, hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly.

If age is indeed a number, where do Americans draw the line between middle-aged and elderly? To people age 45 and younger, the line of demarcation...