(SALT LAKE CITY)—Diana Kuh, Ph.D., has a simple description for healthy aging: Keeping moving, keeping your marbles, and keeping your spirits up. Kuh, a British academician and researcher who is one ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Healthy longevity means a state of good physical, cognitive, and social functioning throughout a person's lifespan. There is an opportunity to leverage population aging for health, societal, and ...

In the mid-20th century, the life course in the United States was viewed as a linear, predictable sequence of stages. Life followed a clear path: education in youth, family formation, stable long-term ...

Although everyone wants a happy life, a good many people spend most of their time being unhappy. They're stuck in jobs they dislike, relationships they resent, holding grudges that weigh them down, ...

The prospect of developing breast cancer is a source of anxiety for many women. Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women (aside from nonmelanoma skin cancers), accounting in ...