AS LIFE EXPECTANCIES continue to grow and the 100-year life becomes more attainable, the question is how and where will we live to ensure that we stay engaged, healthy and fit as we age in the era of ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Humanity is in a unique position. Growth in technology has fundamentally changed the way people live, from the dawn of the internet ...

Dr. Mary E. Klotman, executive vice president for Health Affairs at Duke University and dean of the Duke University School of ...

It's great if your financial accounts are growing as you get older, but what about your social relations account?

Historically, aging played only a minor role in biological research for a long time and was considered a marginal topic. This picture has changed fundamentally since: Scientists around the world are ...

The challenges facing adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) as they age do not occur in isolation. They mirror broader demographic shifts in society. Just as the general ...

For generations, retirement has been seen as a time to wind down and inevitably experience daily limitations. However, Assisted Living Magazine challenges this misconception entirely. The company ...

As recently as the mid-20th century, aging was described by Nobel Prize laureate Peter Medawar as "an unsolved problem in ...

Korean scientists found a bacterium living in your blood that produces compounds that protected skin cells from aging in lab ...

Across the world, water scarcity is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Climate change is pushing rivers and aquifers into unprecedented extremes, droughts and floods ...