Delaying Aging May Have A Bigger Payoff Than Fighting Disease
Curing cancer and eliminating heart disease has been the holy grail of medical research. But there could be even greater benefits if aging itself could be delayed, a study finds.This is not quite as...
View ArticleArguments Over Social Security Pit Old Vs. Young
Congress has until Jan. 15 to come up with another spending plan. As they negotiate, one thing you'll hear a lot about is overhauling entitlement programs — particularly Social Security.The program...
View ArticleWhen 'Fixed Income' Means Getting By On Social Security
Social Security has long been thought of as just part of a retirement plan — along with pensions and savings — but it turns out a lot of people depend on it for most of their income.According to the...
View ArticleDespite Early Stages, Alzheimer's Affects Couple's Big Picture
NPR has been following Pansy and Winston Greene, a California couple struggling with an Alzheimer's diagnosis. Three years ago, Pansy learned she had Alzheimer's disease, and over this past summer, the...
View ArticleWill Seniors Leave Republicans Out To Dry In 2014?
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Some of the Republican Party's most reliable support has come from voters over the age of 65. But a recent survey suggests this could be changing.NPR's Ina Jaffe went to...
View ArticleSnowstorm Leave Parts Of Midwest, Northeast And Canada Powerless
Christmas is less than merry and far from bright for hundreds of thousands of families from the upper Midwest to the far northeast and into Canada, where ice storms have downed power lines, leaving...
View ArticleOlder Americans' Breakups Are Causing A 'Graying' Divorce Trend
For baby boomers, divorce has almost become, like marriage, another rite of passage. The post-World War II generation is setting new records for divorce: Americans over 50 are twice as likely to get...
View ArticleISO Romance: Dating Sites Help Older Singles
With nearly 40 percent of Americans over 50 single and many looking for love online, dating sites are catering to this fast-growing market.Vicki Cherco, 58, of Libertyville, Ill., uses one called...
View ArticleWith Less Financial Security, Older Workers Stay On The Job
The laboratories at The Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., look more like a bunch of stuff from the hardware store than the set from Star Trek. But physicist John Hurrell gazes at a nondescript...
View ArticleNever Too Late: More Older Adults Sold On Entrepreneurship
If you've ever been driven to rage and despair trying to pry open one of those plastic blister packs, Paul Tasner says it doesn't have to be that way. According to the 68-year-old Tasner, all it would...
View ArticleDancers Find A Second Act At Palm Springs Follies
The Palm Springs Follies is an old-fashioned musical revue designed for an audience who remembers when this sort of entertainment wasn't old fashioned. But it's not only for older people — it's by...
View ArticleIn Oregon, End Of Life Orders Help People Avoid The ICU
Do you know how or where you want to die? At home? In a hospital? What measures you want doctors to take to prolong your life? In Oregon and more than a dozen other states, adults who are old and frail...
View ArticleHow Your State Rates In Terms Of Long-Term Care
In just 12 years, the oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation will turn 80. Many will need some kind of long-term care. A new study from AARP says that care could vary dramatically in cost and...
View ArticleOlder Adults Are Fatter Than Ever, Increasing Their Risk Of Illness
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View ArticleWill This Tech Tool Help Manage Older People's Health? Ask Dad
Aging 2.0 may not sound like the hippest start-up in San Francisco, but it's part of an industry worth $2 billion and growing fast — technology to help older adults.Katy Fike, 35, is the company's...
View ArticleHouse Calls Keep People Out Of Nursing Homes And Save Money
When it comes to reining in medical costs, delivering more health care and bringing it right to the patient's home can, for a select group of patients, save money.These particular patients are elders...
View ArticleFeds Hope Hitting Nursing Homes In The Wallet Will Cut Overmedication
A federal lawsuit against two Watsonville, Calif., nursing homes may offer a new approach to dealing with the persistent problem of such facilities overmedicating their residents.The lawsuit details...
View ArticleLove And Sex In The Time Of Viagra — 16 Years On
The lives of older men have changed in a significant way since 1998, or at least their sex lives have changed. That's the year Viagra was introduced. Cialis and Levitra followed a few years later.The...
View ArticleOld And Overmedicated: The Real Drug Problem In Nursing Homes
It's one of the worst fears we have for our parents or for ourselves: that we, or they, will end up in a nursing home, drugged into a stupor. And that fear is not entirely unreasonable. Almost 300,000...
View ArticleNursing Homes Rarely Penalized For Oversedating Patients
Antipsychotic drugs have helped many people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. But for older people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, they can be deadly....
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