Aging

Kindness is its own good—but it can also bring health benefits.

Areas like Michigan's Alcona County offer a lesson for rural communities across the country that need to find a way to function with an aging population.

New research finds the 65-and-over demographic was most inclined to share fabricated news reports during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Medicine, history, and rare age disorders are reshaping the way researchers view the process of aging, and it may extend lives for decades.

New research finds people over 80 with great memories also have stronger personal relationships.

Social butterflies age quite gracefully.

The barrage of tuneful negativity may have health consequences for elderly listeners.

The story of China’s one-child policy—and why its reversal comes too late.

Why China changed its one-child policy—and why it did so too late to help its rapidly graying population.

Heavy lies the crown.

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

At 91, Barbara Beskind is three times the age of most of her colleagues at the global design firm IDEO, but age can be more than just a number in the workplace.

The elderly are still the most vulnerable to severe weather events.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

Researchers are studying aging in the young, when the physiological changes that lead to disease begin to accumulate.

Musical training early in life may offset the decline in speech processing that comes decades later.

There’s a strong cultural distaste for thinking about the elderly engaged in sexual activity, but we must if we’re going to protect an aging population.

Posting teen angst poetry and being part of an active commenting community helped Christine Friar digest the garden-variety pain of growing up, and—unbeknownst to her at the time—curbed the loneliness of being raised by one sick parent and one caretaker parent.

A Mayo Clinic study finds decades spent on creative work pay off.

Advocates argue that early release is the most compassionate and cost-effective solution.

A large-scale study shows faith in one’s fellow man increases as we get older.

New research from Finland finds there’s danger in thinking the worst of your fellow man.

Sorry to break it to you, TSwift. At least in terms of cognitive functioning while playing StarCraft 2, you're finished.

A new study suggests a link between discrimination and the heath of cells.