(This article is part of a weekly Next Avenue series, The Future of Aging: Realizing the Potential of Longevity, published by the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging.) As America ages, we ...

An ad hoc committee will analyze the evidence on key determinants of entrenched poverty and the effectiveness of programs designed to address those determinants to identify policies and programs with ...

Ageism is a problem in health care, and the World Health Organization Global Report on Ageism points to factors such as increased human life expectancy, declines in birthrates, and the lack of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jaime Moran brings her mother, Joan Johnson, to work each day at Kindness Creators, the child care program she co-directs with Pam ...

Often around election time, we tend to focus on our differences. There's talk of boomers versus millennials and vice versa. If you could spend eight weeks of one-on-one time with somebody of a much ...

In a national report released today, two out of three adults surveyed said they want to spend time with people who aren’t their age, while three in four wish there were more opportunities to get to ...

When Gabrielle Clutter was a senior at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, she would return home from classes, knock on her neighbor's door, sit on the couch, and talk about her day. She and her ...

Tom “Woody” Woodhouse awakes every Wednesday morning with a little more purpose than the other days of the week. At age 86, he gathers his bag full of hats and some photographs and leaves just before ...