Health Advisor is a regular column where contributors share their knowledge in fields ranging from fitness to psychology, pediatrics to aging. Follow us @Globe_Health. Aging. The very thought can make ...

In the eighth edition of Aging as a Social Process: Canada and Beyond, Dr. Andrew Wister presents a synthesis and interpretation of social behavioural research concerning individual and population ...

As a vast majority of older adults prefer to remain in their current homes as they age, a key to successfully aging in place lies in preparation and adequate understanding of the dwelling, according ...

The same mechanism that causes children with a rare genetic disease called progeria to age at seven times the normal rate may play a role in normal aging as well, U.S. government researchers said on ...

Theodore D. Cosco, Blossom C.M. Stephan and Carol Brayne In medicine, as in life, only death is certain. Despite the proliferation of research into positive states of aging, the processes of death and ...

A study of some 86,000 people in 27 European nations found that multilingual people had a markedly lower likelihood of accelerated aging.

Increased exposure to extreme heat may be speeding up the aging process in older adults, a new study has found. The bodies of Americans who reside in neighborhoods with more frequent hot days are ...