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States Applaud “Encore Careers”

Local governments take the lead in placing older Americans in public service opportunities.

Boom Without End

Hey, man, this baby boomer retirement thing ain’t that big a deal. OK?

The Glummest Generation

Pew finds that baby boomers are gloomier than Americans older and younger than they are.

Pax Americana Geriatrica

An unprecedented era of great-power aging makes it likely the 21st century will, again, be American.

Old Without Wheels

About 600,000 elderly stop driving every year. How can we keep them mobile?

Ovaries, Testes Age In Different Ways

Researchers at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have tacked one of the key questions in their field: Do reproductive organs age in the same way as other body organs? The question is especially important since more women in developed countries are postponing childbirth until later in life.

As Rats Grow Long in the Teeth

In previous Today In Mice posts, we've talked about teenage rats being 28 days old - the equivalent of human adolescence. Why do rats live faster and die younger than humans? NYU dental professor Timothy Bromage has discovered part of the reason while studying teeth.

The Over-50 Crowd Relearns the Facts of Life

HIV infection is a growing fact of life for America's baby boomer population. But it's a fact both the aging and their caregivers are spectacularly unprepared to address. 

Challenges of a New Frontier: Aging with HIV

People living with HIV are living lo nger, but a new study stresses that few preparations have been made to address the future health and social services needs of the aging group.

Braking Up Is Easy to Do (In Traffic)

Quick hits from the professoriat: That's the brakes for those caught in traffic, it's a grand old (subliminal) flag, and Amber Alerts get a yellow light.