Aging

This week, an Australian woman delivered a baby at the age of 62 after having in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad. Few women can naturally conceive a baby later in life without the help of IVF – and these are rarely first pregnancies. These women go throu ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 3 2016 - 9:02am

A '"Transposon Theory Of Aging"

A new study increases and strengthens the links that have led some to propose the "transposon theory of aging" centering on the rogue elements of DNA that break free in aging cells and rewrite themselves elsewhere in the genome. They believe thi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2016 - 7:31am

Ignore Online Advice For Preventing Alzheimer's Disease- Especially Supplements

In a survey of online articles about preventing Alzheimer's disease, research finds that many online resources for preventing Alzheimer's disease are problematic and could be steering people in the wrong direction. There was poor advice and one ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2016 - 7:50am

How 'Super Aging' Seniors Retain Youthful Memory Abilities

Some loss of memory is often considered an inevitable part of aging, but new research reveals how some people appear to escape that fate. A study older adults whose memory performance is equivalent to that of younger individuals and finds that certain key ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2016 - 6:49am

Following Speech In Background Noise- The Problem May Not Be Your Ears

"Could you repeat that?" The reason you may have to say something twice when talking to older family members at Thanksgiving dinner may not be because of their hearing. Researchers at the University of Maryland have determined that something is g ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2016 - 9:50am

An Argument For Caring For Grandkids

In what will send cheers throughout the parenting community, a new paper suggest that helping care for grandchildren might affect the well-being of older adults. Caregivers' feelings partly depend on their perception of the experience, as well as on h ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2016 - 8:01am

Biomarkers Predict How Well People Age

Chemicals found in the blood, biomarkers, can be combined to produce patterns that signify how well a person is aging and his or risk for future aging-related diseases, according to a new study. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2017 - 3:04pm

Sitting Linked To Premature Aging- And Hopefully Skepticism

Elderly women who sit more than 10 hours a day have accelerated biological aging, according to an epidemiology paper. They have older cells? It's the increasingly popular shorter telomeres hypothesis. Telomeres are tiny caps found on the ends of DNA ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2017 - 9:47am

In Dating, Education Matters Less As We Age

In dating, at least the online kind, younger people tend to have a hard line on educational matching, but older people feel like that's less important. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2017 - 11:27am

Mental Fatigue May Be A Key Issue In Seniors' Walking Ability

Today at the American Physiological Society (APS) annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2018 in San Diego a group of scholars posited that low "mental energy" may affect walking patterns in older adults more than physical fatigue. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2018 - 1:41pm