Older adults (55+) are the fastest-growing population entering houselessness across the country, and their numbers are on pace to triple by 2030. "No Place to Grow Old" explores this growing crisis ...

This is not a review of the research literature on aging. It’s a report of one aging person about the experience of growing older. Often, elderly people don’t want to discuss the intimate details of ...

As the golden years approach, millions of older Americans are facing an unexpected reality: aging alone, without the traditional safety net of family or close kin. This growing trend, fueled by longer ...

Growing up and growing old are two of the most significant experiences and achievements of human consciousness that become more challenging as the aging process gets underway. First, there is the ...

Older readers offer a range of perspectives in response to a column by Charles M. Blow. To the Editor: Re “The Beauty of Embracing Aging,” by Charles M. Blow (column, June 6): I admire Mr. Blow’s ...

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the original members of the Grey Panthers, the organization ...

Mr ZHANG HAS stared down death during his 90 years on Earth. He has been diagnosed with cancer twice. During his latest bout doctors gave him 18 months to live. “That was 16 years ago,” he recalls ...