…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.

Weddings, graduations, and milestone birthdays have long dominated the celebration calendar, but a quieter movement is on the up: the micro-party. These are small, sometimes absurdly small, gatherings that mark everyday victories - like surviving a Monday, or deleting a mountain of emails.

The lesson for me has always been that you can find the “right” group in unexpected places, especially if you don’t spend all your time trying to figure out what the right group is.

The idea of exercise snacking – brief, intermittent periods of exercise at convenient times during the day – isn’t new, but recent research is revealing more specifics of how to maximize your exercise snacking and the benefits that it can deliver.   

A new study by researchers from Weill Cornell has found that older adults living in flooded areas of New Jersey were 5% more likely to develop heart disease than similarly situated individuals in neighboring, but less damaged, areas.

A new report from the McKinsey Health Institute argues that every dollar invested in healthy aging could yield three dollars in economic and healthcare benefits across the U.S.

Move over, TikTok dances and avocado toast - granny hobbies are having a moment. Knitting, crocheting, gardening, baking, journaling, and even board games are no longer just for older generations.

A new report from the Milken Center for the Future of Aging on Minding the Gap: Investing in Dementia as an Opportunity to Extend Healthspan explores the widening gap between and lifespan and healthspan - as our life expectancy has grown, so has the number of years an average person can expect to live in poor health, now approaching a decade in many places and about 12 years in the United States.

If you can’t swing $20 million to go into space, or even $250,000 for three minutes of weightlessness, don’t sweat it, your health is better because of it.  

Each year, we report on the annual Mercer Global Pension Index, hoping that the state of the US retirement system will have improved. Alas, the report for 2024 is out and the US’ rating has continued to drift downward, to a C+, or 29th out of the 48 rated countries.