Dear Carol: I’m 84 years old and as a past caregiver, I appreciate how you balance the legitimate concerns of caregivers with respect and compassion for the aging process. I don’t claim to be as ...

Can research into a rare, accelerated aging disease and "zombie cells" teach us something about the normal aging process? Did you know that a small molecule called NAD + plays a critical role in our ...

About one in 10 older Americans experience dementia, characterized by cognitive and memory issues that are connected to a disease process, as opposed to normal aging. DALLAS — It could be as simple as ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column was previously published May 14, 2022. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to the accumulation of defective energy molecules in the brains of aged mice, ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to ...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has a simple nervous system consisting of just 302 neurones. The human brain, with approximately 90 billion neurones, is far more complex. Nevertheless, neurons in ...