Go back to the day after Thanksgiving. Serenity might be too strong a word, but forgive yourself: your mind is still foggy from heavy injections of sugar, butter and tryptophan. You are experiencing Thanksgiving nirvana.

What lifts you up during difficult times? Is there something in your life that can reliably center you? And even more, do you have anything readily av...

Significant events in your life, including significant choices you make about how you behave, create new information pathways and patterns within your brain.

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?

Maybe I should go sky-diving or bungee jumping (never done those before!) and see if I can resurrect that old devil-may-care from my youth.

Do I look as young as I feel? Of course not. I walk around the campus and smile at the cute guys and expect for a moment they might see me as I looked four decades ago.

It's been nearly 60 years since Billy Graham led his first major evangelistic crusade. At 89 and slowed by Parkinson's disease, Graham spends most of his time at his North Carolina mountaintop home.

In the majority of cases, the development of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia is the result of the acquisition of various risk factors throughout life. PTSD is one such factor.

A well-known cause of dementia is dementia pugilistica, or what has commonly been called being "punch drunk." In some cases, the presentation is virtually indistinguishable from Alzheimer's dementia.

At 30 you are still adolescent, at 40 a grown man; nowadays men of 50, 60 or even 70 are in early, high and late middle age. At 80 you start really aging, but 90? There is no real label: you are an antique.

It's a sad fact that muscles shrink as adults age. But new studies are starting to unravel how this happens -- and what to do about it....

If a latter-day Ponce de Leon were to search for a modern fountain of youth, he'd do well to explore America's West.1 There he'd find the highest conc...

Demand that you or your loved one be given the right to maintain sexual independence, stressing that it's not inappropriate or offensive for people to be sexually active in their later years.

Allen Roses, director of Duke University's Deane Drug Discovery Institute, said that if other researchers get the same findings, it could mean a drast...

There's a shady side and a sunny side, said Joshua O. Haberman, rabbi emeritus of Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, D.C. He was talking ab...

Our aging society is facing health illiteracy, a dangerous problem that has been flying under the radar.

All year I write columns exposing people who threaten ordinary life, but I want now to describe the people who make that ordinary life worth living. For me, near the top slot would be one word: Gran.