Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 ...

Reaching the age of 100 does not necessarily mean a life fraught with illness. A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows ...

Older adults who are musicians have an easier time distinguishing speech from noise. It adds to existing studies that show ...

Old age is perplexing to imagine in part because the definition of it is notoriously unstable. As people age, they tend to move the goalposts that mark out major life stages. Illustration by ...

Dear Liz: My wife and I have no children to take care of us in our old age, and I am scared to death regarding what will happen to the surviving spouse when one of us dies or we become incapacitated.

“Old age,” as we know it, is made up. To be sure, a full Whitman’s Sampler of unpleasant biological contingencies can arrive with age, and death ultimately comes for us all.

On January 1, 2022, the 11th version of the ICD was released without the term “old age”—or language that suggests aging is a disease—in its contents. The decision wasn’t welcomed by ...

But there was also an age gap when using these markers as indicators of what makes someone old. For example, while 44 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 29 said that retiring from work ...