Aging: Overview

Financial Planning: Future Proof Your Retirement

Drooping Eyelids

As we get older, the lower eyelids sometimes start to droop away from the eyeball. Drooping is the result of reduced muscle tone in the muscles that control the eyelids.

Parkinson's Disease - Topic Overview

Parkinson's disease affects the way you move. It happens when there is a problem with certain nerve cells in the brain.

What Happened to Wellness?

Doing the proven things that are good for your long-term physical well-being require effort and time.

Aging: A Different Kind of Utopia

The trick with aging in place is to make the environment brighter and easier to navigate with shelving and appliances all made effortlessly…

Would You Pay $100K for a Year of Life?

It turns out that the average American values a year of life at between $100,000 and $300,000.

Technology Catching Up to Needs of Seniors

A recent article in ID magazine suggests that we 21st century elderly may have as much or more to gain as anyone from the high tech near future.

The Calculus of Happiness

We've become a culture of denial and utilitarianism that values weird isolating kinds of drudgery like running indoors on a treadmill.

Staying Attractive as You Age

It's not that I've ever been the kind of woman that men actually hoot at, but still, men reflexively check out women, so to be consciously aware that…