Old People

Yes We Do: Sex During The Golden Years

New York Times | Nancy Price Freedman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Style


What constitutes "sexually active" for a wife and husband who are 70 and 78 years old? A certain number of times a week, a month, a year? I haven't se...

Online Social Networks Empower Older People

nytimes.com | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living


Like many older people, Paula Rice of Island City, Ky., has grown isolated in recent years. Her four grown children live in other states, her two marr...

Yoga: Even for the Disabled

Bea Ammidown | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living


Bea Ammidown

Yoga is all. It is everything, it is a process to unite and is about freedom. Physical, energetic, psycho-emotional, and spiritual healing means the freedom to be simply who we truly are.

Change for the Aged

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living


Arthur Rosenfeld

At a time when our country is in a paroxysm of economic self-doubt and cleansing itself of corruption, it is tempting to equate what has come before with "old" and the incoming, the new, with "young".

Barack's Ballyhooed Youth Brigade Should Be Asking: "Dude, Where's My Congress?"

John Seery | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics


John Seery

The 111th Congress, when it convenes on January 6th, will be the oldest in our nation's history. Each of the last five Congresses has, successively, set a new record as the oldest our country has ever seen.

This Election Don't Trust Anyone Under 30

Billy Kimball | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics


Billy Kimball

Why, for God's sake, do politicians waste so much time and energy courting the young, one of the most politically worthless segments of the entire electorate?