Caring well for the elderly is a familiar challenge. Some elderly people need close medical attention in facilities; others struggle with reduced capabilities while not wanting to leave their homes.

Floor fixes in older houses often look great for a year or two, then crack, cup, or sag right back out of level. The problem is rarely the patch itself. It is that you are asking a century old ...

My husband and I are relocating to a nearby state to be closer to our daughter and will need to find a new primary care physician when we arrive. We are both in our late 70s and are interested in ...

Some things have become so associated with aging that people barely question them anymore — misheard conversations, TV ...

The visual system affects circadian rhythms, and both visual and sleep difficulties are common in older adults. This study examines the association between visual impairment, age-related eye disease, ...

Cellular senescence is a stress response that restrains the growth of aged, damaged or abnormal cells. Thus, senescence has a crucial role in development, tissue maintenance and cancer prevention.

Older adults are increasingly turning to cannabis to avoid taking pharmaceuticals, or as a “last resort” for pain, sleep, mental health issues and other age-related problems. But they have real ...

A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of dementia—limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, or LATE—that is often ...

The first in a two-part investigation into the bias against older workers in tech explores the scale of the problem and its impact. Ask most people to describe a typical tech worker and it’s all too ...