A 76-Year-Old Basketball Champ Shares How to Age Well
An interview with Mavis Albin, a basketball player featured in the PBS documentary “Age of Champions.”...
View ArticleCognitive Abilities of Nonagenarians Improving
Michelle Obama hosts Kids’ State Dinner; Plus, Citi Bike or choke holds: Which is the greater danger?...
View ArticleMaking Sure Your End-of-Life Wishes Are Followed
Often confusing state rules govern how medical care is provided in life-threatening situations....
View ArticleHow Technology Will Support an Aging America
New technologies are forming a growing industry to help seniors age in place at home. Source:http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2013/07/17/how-technology-will-support-an-aging-america
View ArticleCDC Looks at Life Expectancies for Each State
If Kate Middleton uses hypnobirthing, should you? Plus, myths and facts about weight loss Source:http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2013/07/19/cdc-looks-at-life-expectancies-for-each-state
View ArticleDear Sons: Can We Talk About Death And Dying?
Some parents avoid family talks about later-life health and finances, but it’s often the kids who bail....
View ArticleSpend More, Get More: The Currency of Health
For the greatest return on your investment, exercise. Source:http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2013/07/22/spend-more-get-more-the-currency-of-health
View ArticleLiving with ALS: Seeking Independence and Identity
Driving a specially outfitted van is a nerve-wracking experience but one Hollister Lindley treasures....
View ArticleThe Newest Health Care Worker May Be Your Handyman
A program called CAPABLE may improve the health of older Americans and save the government money....
View ArticleHow to Prepare to Financially Support Aging Parents
Financial, health and planning tips so you can help your parents without hurting yourself....
View ArticleCelebrating Old Age Should Happen Every Day
Aging milestones are nice, but the real joys of achieving old age don’t depend on birthdays to observe....
View ArticleThe Cost of Being Tall is a Shorter Life Expectancy
This popular science piece outlines some of the evidence for greater height to come with a penalty to longevity. I believe that the most plausible contribution to this effect has to do with growth...
View ArticleThe Intersection of Kickstarter-Style Fundraising for Research and...
The success of Kickstarter and conceptually similar entities (IndieGoGo, AngelList, and so forth) as fundraising communities has more than adequately demonstrated that crowdfunding works very well in...
View ArticleSteps Towards a Tissue Engineered Thymus
The thymus helps to generate the cell populations of your immune system when young, but it atrophies – a process called involution – quite early in adult life. Many of the frailties of aging have their...
View ArticleConsidering State Opposition to Life Extension Technologies
It is human nature to be capable of committing acts of great evil or economic self-destruction for years on end, and especially in groups. We are not at all far removed at the moment from large-scale...
View ArticleOpposing the Argument that Increased Longevity Will Slow Progress, and is...
Some opponents of increased human healthy longevity argue that if we begin to live for far longer than the present human life span then progress in technology will slow to a crawl. This is often...
View Article7 Ways Retirement Is a Young Person’s Issue
Recommended changes in spending, savings and investing will have a great impact on younger generations....
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Reprehensible
There is no technology so beneficial that someone somewhere isn’t thinking about how to use it to hurt people. That even holds true for means of rejuvenation, ways to eliminate the vast and terrible...
View ArticleA Video Tour of Alcor and Interview With Max More
Cryonics is the low-temperature storage of the brain on clinical death, preserving the fine structure of the mind for a future of more advanced technologies. It is a vitally important industry for all...
View ArticleThe Current State of Knowledge of Genetics and Longevity
The interaction between genes, metabolism, and natural variations in longevity is an enormously complex space. This complexity is why efforts to slow aging by altering metabolism are doomed to be a...
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