LIFE IN THE END ZONE

November is “National Family Caregivers Month.” Upwards of 41 million Americans provide care to someone else (beyond normal childrearing re...

The pharmaceutical firm Biogen issued a stunning press release this week: it would seek FDA approval for its anti-Alzheimer’s drug, Aducan...

I’ve been reading “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming,” an extensively researched account of where we are headed that begins with ...

            The solution to my dilemma was staring me in the face: if I didn’t find the new  developments in medicine of sufficient inter...

There will be no more email messages with requests for data about the median age of legislators in Western European countries. No emails wi...

Every year, about one-quarter of the 1.4 million American nursing home residents are hospitalized. Most of them survive the experience and ...

Several months ago, in writing about Katy Butler’s generally admirable new book, T he Art of Dying Well , I questioned her uncritical accep...

I particularly like the title of geriatrician Louise Aronson’s new book, Elderhood. I appreciate that she does not shy away from calling o...

Quite by accident, I stumbled upon Kurt Eichenwald’s memoir in the new book section of my local library. I remembered the author from his w...

Falls have long been known to be a major problem among older people. Even when they don’t cause chronic disability or death, a single fall ...