If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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The GoFundMe request jumped out at me as I was scrolling through posts on LinkedIn.

Nora Super, executive director of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging and former director...Read more

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

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The GoFundMe request jumped out at me as I was scrolling through posts on LinkedIn.

Nora Super, executive director of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging and former director...Read more

When my mother was dying, a private, for-profit hospice agency failed her — the assigned nurse was late for the first visit because of a staffing shortage. My mother suffered in misery without pain medication, and our family dumped the agency and switched to a nonprofit.

Karen Eshelman was the nurse who came to the rescue, calmly and quickly ...Read more

When my mother was dying, a private, for-profit hospice agency failed her — the assigned nurse was late for the first visit because of a staffing shortage. My mother suffered in misery without pain medication, and our family dumped the agency and switched to a nonprofit.

Karen Eshelman was the nurse who came to the rescue, calmly and quickly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Early on the morning of Oct. 12, David Mays woke up in the Chevrolet he had been living in for two years, knowing this day would be different.

Safe Parking L.A. had been a blessing, providing a covered space in a downtown garage, with on-site security and access to a bathroom. That was better than sleeping on the street with one...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Early on the morning of Oct. 12, David Mays woke up in the Chevrolet he had been living in for two years, knowing this day would be different.

Safe Parking L.A. had been a blessing, providing a covered space in a downtown garage, with on-site security and access to a bathroom. That was better than sleeping on the street with one...Read more

DALLAS -- When Liz Dyer’s son Nicholas came out to her as gay, she had some hard questions for her faith.

The Fort Worth mom had grown up Southern Baptist and was then leading the women’s ministry at her Southern Baptist Church. She believed “God wouldn’t make someone gay” and same-gender relationships were “wrong” and “...Read more

The next time you’re feeling pain, you might want to hold off on taking that aspirin. According to a new study, music therapy could be the way to go instead.

A study, published in Frontiers in Pain Research, found that subjects listening to music experienced less pain than control subjects. The researchers used “thermal stimuli” on the ...Read more

What could be better than a morning spent surrounded by palm trees, children’s laughter and the sounds of rushing water? How about one where all to-do lists are forgotten while you float along a lazy river and relish some we-time with the family before the onset (onslaught) of the holidays? And if that morning unfolds at Orlando’s gorgeous ...Read more

Keep moving.

Do you want to stay healthier as you push past 50? Ward off arthritis and other conditions that come with age? Then get up and get active.

That’s what Dr. Nicholas Van Der Ahe, a primary care physician with Atrium Health Floyd, said would be of great benefit to folks over 50.

“Try to get at least two-and-a-half hours of ...Read more

"I've already canned most of the tomatoes this year," Lou Maiuri says on a late September afternoon. "I still got to dig up that whole field of potatoes, though."

Two days later, those potatoes were drying atop the fertile soil of the Summersville, West Virginia, garden he's tended for seven decades.

"I've been doing this since I can remember,...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For some people, retirement is a long-awaited chance to sleep late, relax and celebrate the joys of life without pressure or deadlines.

For others, it's an opportunity to finally get to work.

Within a span of a few days, I heard about two retirees who had long dreamed of becoming authors, but their jobs kept getting in the way. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For some people, retirement is a long-awaited chance to sleep late, relax and celebrate the joys of life without pressure or deadlines.

For others, it's an opportunity to finally get to work.

Within a span of a few days, I heard about two retirees who had long dreamed of becoming authors, but their jobs kept getting in the way. ...Read more

The Rev. Robert Banzin had saved up about $61,000, which he planned to use to replace his 20-year-old car and pay for medication and other expenses. But these plans are now on hold.

The 85-year-old retired Catholic priest was robbed of his life savings in a financial scam, which friends and colleagues, who say he’s a “wonderful” and “...Read more

Lynn Cooper was going through an awful time. After losing her job in 2019, she became deeply depressed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and her anxiety went through the roof. Then her cherished therapist — a marriage and family counselor — told Cooper she couldn’t see her once Cooper turned 65 and joined Medicare.

“I was stunned,” ...Read more

As older adults begin to outnumber young people in the United States in the coming decade, advocacy groups are challenging states to shift away from single-family zoning in favor of housing solutions that allow older adults to “age in place.”

By 2035, the U.S. will have more people over the age of 65 than under the age of 18, a first in ...Read more

The Rev. Robert Banzin had saved up about $61,000, which he planned to use to replace his 20-year-old car and pay for medication and other expenses. But these plans are now on hold.

The 85-year-old retired Catholic priest was robbed of his life savings in a financial scam, which friends and colleagues, who say he’s a “wonderful” and “...Read more

As older adults begin to outnumber young people in the United States in the coming decade, advocacy groups are challenging states to shift away from single-family zoning in favor of housing solutions that allow older adults to “age in place.”

By 2035, the U.S. will have more people over the age of 65 than under the age of 18, a first in ...Read more

A retired Campbell Soup Co. employee who helped break racial barriers at the company’s flagship plant in downtown Camden, New Jersey, Daisy Riley began celebrating her 100th birthday this month in grand style in her Parkside neighborhood.

Although she never believed she would reach this milestone, Riley has embraced her new status as a ...Read more

A retired Campbell Soup Co. employee who helped break racial barriers at the company’s flagship plant in downtown Camden, New Jersey, Daisy Riley began celebrating her 100th birthday this month in grand style in her Parkside neighborhood.

Although she never believed she would reach this milestone, Riley has embraced her new status as a ...Read more