Your Take: New Guidelines on Alzheimer's
Would you want to know whether or not you'll have Alzheimer's if you had the opportunity? The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association released new guidelines on the disease, in...
View ArticleMusic Lessons as Child May Keep Aging Minds Sharp
The Tiger Mothers may have been right all along: Music lessons as a kid may make you sharper decades later. A new study finds that adults with musical training appear to have sharper thinking and...
View ArticleEldercare
Jane Gross, staff writer at the New York Times where she started the blog, "The New Old Age," and author of A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves, talks about her personal...
View ArticleTreating Dementia with Music
The new documentary "Alive Inside" chronicles the work of social worker Dan Cohen - whose organization, Music & Memory, aims to bring personalized digital music into the lives of the elderly and...
View ArticleThe Best Care Possible
Palliative-care physician Dr. Ira Byock argues that end-of-life care is one of the biggest national crises facing us today, and that politics has trumped reason when it comes to addressing the issue....
View ArticleThe Internet and the Over-65 Crowd
One hundred years ago the United States was a technological hotbed. Suburban homes were being wired up with power. Scores of electrical gadgets — like vacuum cleaners and washing machines — were being...
View ArticleUnafraid of Aging
Linda Fried, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, discusses her work and research into the intersection of aging and public health.
View ArticleWho Wants To Live Forever?
In the 1900s the average life expectancy in the western world was 47 years old. Today it's nearly 80 years old, and in the future, we're set to live even longer.David Ewing Duncan is a science...
View ArticleThe Song of the Ancient Soprano
It is no secret that opera companies have, of late, included youthfulness as one of the criteria in casting operas. This may not be actual chronological youth (the voices of opera singers take time to...
View Article'Triumphs of Experience': Studying the Happy Life
Between 1939 and 1944, more than 200 Harvard students – all "physically and mentally healthy" men – were recruited to participate in a study. Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein were rejected, but the...
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Krulwich Wonders: New Superhero, 3,200 Years Old, Turns Air Into Wood Superfast
Robert Krulwich/NPR This is for you, Martina Navratilova, for you, Nolan Ryan, for you, Methuselah, for you, Jimmy Carter, and for all of you reading this if you're on the "wrong" side of 50 but still...
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Rod Stewart: Once Naughty, Now Nice
It takes a unique place in one's life and career to simultaneously release a memoir detailing one's sexual escapades of yore and an album of family-friendly Christmas classics. But that's exactly...
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Krulwich Wonders: A Metaphor For Forgetting (That You Might Remember)
I can't imagine what it's like, though I watched my father endure it for nine long years. He was taken by Alzheimer's, the disease that creeps in and slowly erases what you know until, eventually,...
View ArticleThe Grayest Generation: Older Parents
Americans are becoming parents at older and older ages. The average first-time mother is now four years older (25) than she was in 1970. Judith Shulevitz, science editor at The New Republic and author...
View ArticleThe Grayest Generation: Older Parents
Americans are becoming parents at older and older ages. The average first-time mother is now four years older (25) than she was in 1970. Judith Shulevitz, science editor at The New Republic and author...
View Article"56 Up"
Documentary filmmakerMichael Apted talks about the latest in his 7 Up series, "56 Up." Joining him is Tony Walker, one of the subjects who has been featured in the films since he was 7 years old.
View ArticleEd Koch's Press Conference, on His 65th Birthday
Presentation of a new report on how science and technology can help city operations. The mayor condemns Britain's shipping of Vietnam refugees back to Vietnam. He comments on aging (he turns 65 but he...
View ArticleLove & Let Die
Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and Diane Meier, chief executive officer of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and professor of geriatrics,...
View ArticleAn Old Wise Man Once Said
Writer Henry Alford has a new book called How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth). We sent Alford to Washington Square Park to ask strangers to share their...
View Article[Unedited] Jane Gross with Krista Tippett
We are living longer, for better and for worse. And the story of aging is one that too often goes untended. Our guest tells us that we not only have to care for our parents — but for ourselves.
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