My Granddaughter just started her freshman year at University, but she is coming home every night even though she has a dorm. I’m worried she is limiting herself from making true friends. How can I convince her to stay one weekend on campus without overstepping?

Between the hustle of classes, the pressure to perform, and the distance from home, many college students quietly struggle with isolation. That’s where the “Free Moms” of NC State University step in.

The researchers found significant brain age gaps for those engaged in the creative arts, with increasing gaps at higher levels of expertise.

We’ve told you before that we have sworn off the Golden Bachelor forever. And it is a good thing too, since the Bachelors are not exactly representing older men very well. The current edition is fronted by 65-year-old Mel Owens, a former NFL linebacker, who is now on an apology tour for saying…

Want to Live Longer? Get More Money. That’s the less than uplifting message of a new report from NCOA and LeadingAge LTSS Center at UMass Boston.

We talk a lot about our health over at our Three Not So Bad newsletter, but here at Healthy to 100, we like to bring attention to social connection - and that doesn’t seem like a lost cause, at least according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University.

There have been a number of competing theories for the life expectancy disparity between men and women, ranging from chromosomal theories to caregiving theories to sexual reproduction competition theories. A new study of animals in both zoos and in the wild lends new support to several of the theories.

On the second episode of season 8 of Century Lives, the team talks with Rick Steves about how he has reinvented himself—and his industry—as he ages.

The standoff between Republicans and Democrats over a government funding bill has triggered a shutdown that could hit older adults, especially low income seniors who rely on federal funded support programs, especially hard.

…in this case, a study suggesting that fast food purveyors are not only scrambling your eggs, but also potentially scrambling your brain.

And for those same reasons, we are going to make a beeline for our local park this Friday, October 10th, to mark National Walk to a Park Day, founded by the Trust in 2021 to highlight the importance of parks in community life.

Put down your phone for a second and look around: odds are good that you will see lots of people heads down in their phone, ignoring the world around them.

New research is showing that focusing on your health after 60 is just as important as before 60.

Last week, Sister Jean, the beloved campus minister officially retired at age 106 from Loyola University Chicago, closing out more than six decades of service at the school 

At the tender age of 99, Mel Brooks is finally making Spaceballs 2, the long-awaited sequel to his 1987 comedy classic, Spaceballs.

Over the course of a lifetime, older people have been conditioned to think of themselves as less useful, more forgetful, and less worthy of respect – with one of the results being that older people are less likely to seek social connection, especially intergenerational social connection.

It was National Centenarian Day a few weeks ago, but King Charles got a jump on it early, by rushing off to Surry to visit Ethel Caterham, the oldest person in the world, on her 116th birthday.   

Landlords, however, are playing a larger role in the lives of older Americans, because the number of older renters is increasing rapidly.

Fran Drescher is the subject of the first episode of Season 8 of Century Lives: The New Old, from the Stanford Center on Longevity.

There are so many special “days” and “weeks” now that it is easy to gloss over the ones that truly should command our attention. Among that later group is Falls Prevention Awareness Week, which runs from September 22 to September 26.