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Stanford Researcher Marcia Stefanick Delves into Healthy Aging

By Rita Beamish There was a time when menopausal hormone therapy was seen as a near-panacea for the ills of the aging woman. That was before Marcia Stefanick and her Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) colleagues put the theory to the test and upended the medical world. Now Stefanick is on a different quest, but this… Read more Stanford Researcher Marcia Stefanick Delves into Healthy Aging

3/11/2012 - Alone in Public Housing, With a Spare Bedroom

The New York City Housing Authority, like other public housing authorities across the country, has a problem: By its count, there are 55,000 units in New York City’s public housing stock that are “underoccupied” — about one-third of all its apartments. Making matters worse, there are 15,000 public housing units that are overcrowded, not to… Read more 3/11/2012 - Alone in Public Housing, With a Spare Bedroom

Frontiers in Aging Symposium Series

As part of this ongoing series, Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging will sponsor a symposium on March 19 titled 'Selective autophagy in aging and age related disorders'....

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3/8/2012 - About 800,000 in U.S. have Alzheimer's - live alone

Roughly 800,000 people in the United States have Alzheimer’s and live alone, according to an Alzheimer’s Association report released today. That’s about 1 in 7 people who have Alzheimer’s – and the rate is probably higher in big cities, where elderly adults are more likely to live alone. In San Francisco, public health experts estimate… Read more 3/8/2012 - About 800,000 in U.S. have Alzheimer's - live alone

3/8/2012 - Aging And Happiness: Why People May Be Happier As They Age

“Every age has its happiness and troubles,” famous French uber-centenarian Jeanne Calment once said. And every age, quite literally, looks at happiness and troubles in different ways. For that nugget of wisdom, we can tip our hats to Derek Isaacowitz. In the early 90s, Isaacowitz worked as a research assistant to Laura Carstensen while pursuing undergraduate studies… Read more 3/8/2012 - Aging And Happiness: Why People May Be Happier As They Age

3/7/2012 - Prisons Develop Programs For Aging Population

Overcrowded prisons already coping with budget pressures face a new challenge: The growing needs of an aging inmate population. With limited state budgets, prison setups, and facilities, prison officials are trying new ways to provide care and, in some cases, opting to release inmates early. Listen to the discussion at NPR

3/7/2012 - Baby boomers will be selling their homes, but will their children want to buy them?

As home-owning baby boomers age, they’ll eventually be leaving their homes. But it’s unclear whether the next generation will be eager or willing to buy them, according to a new paper from the Bipartisan Policy Institute. As John Pitkin and Dowell Myers wrote in 2008,“The sell-off of seniors’ former housing creates a potential supply that will potentially exceed younger… Read more 3/7/2012 - Baby boomers will be selling their homes, but will their children want to buy them?

3/1/2012 - More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond

Over the past 20 years, the divorce rate among baby boomers has surged by more than 50 percent, even as divorce rates over all have stabilized nationally. At the same time, more adults are remaining single. The shift is changing the traditional portrait of older Americans: About a third of adults ages 46 through 64… Read more 3/1/2012 - More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond

2/28/2012 - Family Caregiving: A huge and neglected challenge

We are a nation of caregivers. Every day over 44 million adults serve as unpaid caregivers to ailing or disabled relatives or friends, and annually 65 million do so—yet this form of work often goes uncompensated and is largely invisible. Unsurprisingly, inadequate awareness of the issues leads to inadequate policies and solutions. Read the full… Read more 2/28/2012 - Family Caregiving: A huge and neglected challenge