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.

Fashion designer and icon Giorgio Armani died last week at the age of 91. The New York Times credited him for rewriting the rules of fashion, “not once but twice in his lifetime”, and for bringing an inventive, iconoclastic approach to modern clothing design.  

According to a recent study in Social Psychological and Personality Science, attending live events - festivals, community barbecues, or even a chaotic three-on-three basketball game - boosts social connections and combats loneliness.

What do you do when retirement finally gives you the gift of time? For Julian Lee, the answer was clear: blacksmithing.

In a new study published in Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers sought to assess how doctors may be becoming over reliant on A.I. to the detriment of their own skills.   

And what the residents of the Westminster Oaks Senior Living Community in Tallahassee, Florida were doing last week was lying in the middle of the street, trying to block the Florida Department of Transportation from painting over a crosswalk in front of W.T. Moore Elementary School.

A new forecasting study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute, the Institute for Demographic Studies in France, and the University of Wisconsin has found that the rate of longevity growth for current cohorts will likely decline by somewhere between 37% and 52% from previous generations.

What do you see in an empty paper towel tube or a stack of leftover matzah? Trash? For Debra Rapoport - renowned textile artist and fashion icon - they’re the raw materials for hats, epaulets, and other unforgettable creations.

A new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that the share of people who reported reading for pleasure on a given day fell to 16 percent in 2023 from a peak of 28 percent in 2004 — a drop of about 40 percent.

Want to find your next good book before summer’s over? Join The Longevity Project’s September Longevity Book Club with author Raymond Jetson on September 9th @ 1PM PT/4 PM ET, where he will discuss his book Aging While Black!

American companies are hitting an inflection point, where they will need, for the sake of productivity and effectiveness, to insist that more workers return to the office.

I have just retired after being a teacher for 25+ years. Most of my friends were people from work, and now I don't have an excuse to see them. While I am happy to be retired, I miss the routine and opportunity to talk with people. What should I do?