Today at the American Physiological Society (APS) annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego a group of scholars posited that low "mental energy" may affect walking patterns in older…

In dating, at least the online kind, younger people tend to have a hard line on educational matching, but older people feel like that's less important. Traditionally, humans look for certain…

Elderly women who sit more than 10 hours a day have accelerated biological aging, according to an epidemiology paper. They have older cells?  It's the increasingly popular shorter telomeres…

Chemicals found in the blood, biomarkers, can be combined to produce patterns that signify how well a person is aging and his or risk for future aging-related diseases, according to a new study. The…

In what will send cheers throughout the parenting community, a new paper suggest that helping care for grandchildren might affect the well-being of older adults. Caregivers' feelings partly…

"Could you repeat that?" The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers at the University…

Some loss of memory is often considered an inevitable part of aging, but new research reveals how some people appear to escape that fate. A study older adults whose memory performance is equivalent…

In a survey of online articles about preventing Alzheimer's disease, research finds that many online resources for preventing Alzheimer's disease are problematic and could be steering people in the…

A new study increases and strengthens the links that have led some to propose the "transposon theory of aging" centering on the rogue elements of DNA that break free in aging cells and rewrite…

This week, an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 62 after having in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad. Few women can naturally conceive a baby later in life without the help of IVF – and…