Growing older often brings new health challenges. Heart disease, dementia, depression and diabetes become more common with ...

Aging significantly impacts the immune system, notably through the involution of the thymus, which reduces T cell production. This decline weakens immune responses, making older adults more ...

Many adults carry longing, desire, vulnerability, and the need for connection long after society expects them to become less ...

Humans do not always age biologically at the same rate as their chronological age. Faster biological aging compared to chronological age has been linked to higher risks of disease and mortality.

This Pew Research Center report looks at how Americans are thinking about aging and how things are going for adults ages 65 and older. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the ...

Friends enjoy a Valentine’s Day celebration at a Los Angeles senior center on Feb. 13, 2025. (Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) About this research This Pew Research Center report ...

Alcohol use leads to earlier brain aging and impaired behavioral flexibility, with those effects detectable even among adults ...

The Aging and Adult Services (AAS) program is funded by the CA Department of Social Services as part of a statewide workforce development initiative identified as a top priority in California’s Master ...

Due to the pandemic, millions of Americans have moved back in with family out of necessity, leading to relationship conflict. The two biggest groups who have moved are young adult children moving back ...