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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.

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

“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.