Tag: Aging
Home for the holidays and worried about an older relative? Make...
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia
With the second holiday season of the pandemic upon us, many people will have...
Preliminary research finds that even mild cases of COVID-19 leave a...
Jessica Bernard, Texas A&M University
With more than 18 months of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, researchers have...
The maximum human life span will likely increase this century, but...
Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
When Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997...
4 ways that volunteering can be good for you
Jennifer A. Jones, University of Florida
More than 77 million Americans volunteer a total of 6.9 billion hours a...
Air pollution may contribute to Alzheimer’s and dementia risk – here’s...
Jiu-Chiuan Chen, University of Southern California
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It slowly destroys memory, thinking and behaviors, and eventually the...
Why do older people heal more slowly?
Matthew Steinhauser, University of Pittsburgh
I recently visited an 83-year-old patient in the hospital after EMTs rushed her to the ER with an infected leg...
Boomers have a drug problem, but not the kind you might...
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia
Baby boomers – that’s anyone born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964 – are 20% of the population, more...
How old would you want to be in heaven?
Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Brandeis University
Many religious faiths propose different versions of heaven as a location: There are walled gardens with streams, flowers, pleasing scents,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
