And that trait served her and her family well as she pushed to have a cousin charged and ultimately convicted of stealing her 89-year-old aunt's life-savings.Marc Jeffery Hawk, a 54-year-old former county maintenance supervisor, ple...

An increase in the number of seniors coupled with a shortage of workers are two dynamics prompting governments around the world to reassess their country’s official ‘retirement’ age, often resulting in an increase in the age at whic...

My mother needs help here in New York. She was "injured" in her home in March 2009. My sister "discovered" her, almost dead with a massive head injury.After six months of recovery, mom had a choice to go home with assistance or tr...

The Longer Life Foundation is an example of one of the conservative funding sources in aging research; it is similar to the Ellison Medical Foundation in choices of which research to fund and the public face of the organization. Not...

The Changing Aging blog as an interesting post about sex and longevity. According to a new University of Chicago study, living healthy now means having a longer sex life. Stacy Tessler Lindau and Natalia Gavrilova from the universit...

As a kid, I remember taking my mother’s scary college textbooks off the shelf in the den and thumbing through them. Why scary? Because my mom was a dietitian and her textbooks featured creepy images of kids with rickets and other vi...

Alzheimer’s Disease International recently announced the winners of its international photography competition ‘Active Life with Dementia’.     One judge was Phil Coomes, picture editor and photographer for the BBC News website, wher...

You might recall the accidental discovery of unusually potent regeneration in MRL mice by Ellen Heber-Katz's team some years ago: Our laboratory has determined that the MRL mouse strain is unique in its capacity for regenerative wou...

Nancy over at Vaboomer.com is hosting this week. Spend a few minutes over there soaking up baby-boomer goodness.

With everything else going on around the world, the devastation in Haiti can become lost in all the other media messages.   Thanks to the Washington Post for keeping it front and center through its article ‘Old and Poor in Haiti Suf...

Clara G. Fernandez at 87 years old un-wittingly got caught in the biggest Medicare Fraud that has been reported on this website.Clara who had been together with her husband for 58 years was starting to enjoy the fruits of their life...

Can a person in their middle years or senior years still buy life insurance? If you are over 50, or if you are caring for an older person, you can find a wide choice of products. Since statistics show that Americans are living longe...

Amidst the preprint list of the Rejuvenation Research journal, I see an interesting paper I'd somehow missed: life span can be extended in old mice by transplant of a young thymus. Noninvasive Neonatal Thymus Graft into the Axillary...

It is finally happened, you have decided to retire and enjoy life. However, before making the transition from the daily routine of sleeping in on weekdays, do you know if you are really ready for change? Here are some things you nee...

Check out this list of winning baby boomers at the Oscars. An interesting look at obsolete jobs (from NPR) A family sees Jesus in their Marmite (from the BBC) Seven ways to write irresistible headlines for your blog posts, by Jonath...

Via FuturePundit, I see that a recent open access paper outlines the results of applied cancer research over the past four decades. Declining Death Rates Reflect Progress against Cancer The success of the "war on cancer" initiated i...

When I was a kid, we had a family friend who was a Jehovah’s Witness. Those Watchtower pamphlets she left all over our house often detailed the coming destruction of the earth in all its flaming glory. Now I’m not a religious person...

More and more families are raising their children while taking in their own parents to care for too. The parents have moved in with their adult children because they do not need the services of a nursing home or have access to Cleve...

I see a clear mental image of my two friends, young, healthy and in love. David has dark, curly, shoulder-length hair and almost always a big smile on his intelligent face. Shawn is lovely in that moment with her flowing...

To follow on from a recent post on medical tourism for stem cell therapies, I though I'd note the pace of development in Asia. The medical industry in countries like India, Malaysia, Vietnam, and so forth is in many ways more energe...