The aging brain has a reputation problem. We tend to measure it by what becomes harder: how quickly it learns, how precisely ...

On the International Day of Older Persons, we must look beyond longevity and ask a more important question: How are our older ...

Last time, I wrote about what I feel as a nurse working in the medical field regarding the "aging problem."This time, before ...

"Japan is an aging society."A phrase we have heard time and again on the news and television.The number of elderly people is ...

For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fueling diseases like heart disease, dementia and diabetes. But a new study of Indigenous populations ...

Population ageing is not an older-worker problem. Explore how AI, age-inclusive employment and longer working lives can ...

A study of killifish reveals how protein dysfunction develops in vertebrate brain cells, a key driver of aging. Aging and neurodegeneration are both known to disrupt the production of functional ...

Older New Yorkers desire and deserve to remain in the homes and communities where they have lived and raised families. And yet we are failing to meet this reasonable need for thousands of people who ...

Aging and neurodegeneration are both known to disrupt the production of functional proteins in cells—a process called "proteostasis," or protein homeostasis. Brain cells in particular fall prey to ...

In December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us call a “super-aged society.” By August 2026 that share had risen ...