The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), ...

Aging is a social process as well as a biological one, and we have to figure out ways to cope with our greying and the greying of society and the speed of change.

Biologists know a great deal now, he wrote, about how people grow old. They probably will learn what is necessary to retard the aging process. But it will be impossible, he declared, to reverse ...

The image went viral, and one recurring comment stuck out to me: young queer people who said that they’d never seen an older ...

The oldest Tyrolean celebrated his 107th birthday on January 31. Josef Peer from Trins has reached an exceptionally old age. But he is not alone as a ...

The oldest person in the world ... My earlier post on this topic was titled “Growing Old Is Easy: Time Does All the Work.” I thought it was trueish and amusing. After listing some of the ...