1/27/2012 - Number of Elderly Inmates Surges

In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates — with their high rates of illness and infirmity — make up an ever increasing share of the prison population. Read the full article at Time

1/26/2012 - Millions Now Manage Aging Parents' Care From Afar

Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she’ll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What if she has a medical emergency and no one’s there to help? What if, like her father, her mother slips into a fog of… Read more 1/26/2012 - Millions Now Manage Aging Parents' Care From Afar

Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise?

Global ageing, in developed and developing countries alike, will dramatically alter the way that societies and economies work. The issues include how individuals find fulfilment, at what age they retire, and their quality of life once they do retire; how governments devise social contracts to provide financial security; how the older and younger generations interact… Read more Global Population Ageing: Peril or Promise?

Dana Goldman

Dana Goldman is a Professor and the Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy at the ...

Barbara Strauch

Barbara Strauch is Science Editor of The New York Times. She is the author of two books...

Jack Rowe

Jack Rowe is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., one of the nation’s leading health care and related benefits organizations, from 2000-2006. He is former president and CEO of Mount Sinai NYU… Read more Jack Rowe

1/24/2012 - Seniors decide retirement doesn't suit them, keep working

The percentage of people who work and people who want to work has increased markedly in both the 65-and-older and 75-and-older groups, says Sara Rix, senior adviser for the AARP Public Policy Institute. For 2011, the participation rate for 65 and older was 17.9% compared with 10.8% in 1985. For 75 and older, the rate… Read more 1/24/2012 - Seniors decide retirement doesn't suit them, keep working

1/23/2012 - The Alzheimer’s Reading Room

In mid-January, Bob DeMarco, 61, left his 96-year-old mother’s side for the first time in eight years to go to a conference about Alzheimer’s disease just a few hours from the home they share in Delray Beach, Fla. He made elaborate plans for his time away, arranging for his mother, Dotty, who has advanced Alzheimer’s,… Read more 1/23/2012 - The Alzheimer’s Reading Room

1/22/2012 - A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond

IN 1905, at age 55, Sir William Osler, the most influential physician of his era, decided to retire from the medical faculty of Johns Hopkins. In a farewell speech, Osler talked about the link between age and accomplishment: The “effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of 25 and 40… Read more 1/22/2012 - A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond

1/19/2012 - A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond

Some people are much better than their peers at delaying age-related declines in memory and calculating speed. What researchers want to know is why. Why does your 70-year-old neighbor score half her age on a memory test, while you, at 40, have the memory of a senior citizen? If investigators could better detect what protects… Read more 1/19/2012 - A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond