Caredroids and the Future of Growing Old
Recently, the online magazine, Good, suggested robots may be the future of elder care. But how will these caredroids change the way we understand what it means to “care”? And how will they change the way...
Pop Divas Turn an “Old” Sound into Power and Experience
In 2014 Aretha Franklin released her first album since 1985: Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics. Whether critics praised it or panned it, they wanted to talk about age. “At age 72," the...
The Immortality Diet: How Diet and Age Intersect
We are not meant to live forever. But for as long as life has existed, organisms have been battling to forestall death by any means possible. The diet industry has promised many things--but can it add...
Language, Memory, and Aging–And the Words To Say It
Few memories from my first course in cognitive psychology have stuck with me over time. There was the time the time the professor was appalled when he learned how many drinks the young fraternity member who...
Aging Happens to Us All
At the heart of the economics of aging is the key question: how should we divide things between retired and working people? As the population gets older, answering that question will get more difficult.
Why is Genome Instability a Hallmark of Cancer and Aging?
One of my college biology professors once told his students that when a person lives long enough, he or she will eventually get cancer. He wasn’t wrong—older age is a major risk for developing cancer as...
Does Well-Being Get Better with Time?
Although old age is often depicted in a negative light, studies show that wrinkles and retirement may not be so dismal; in fact, we may even become happier as we grow older.
