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IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched ‘Millennial Corps’: lawsuit
IBM has let go more than 20,000 U.S. workers over age 40 in the past six years, lawsuit claims.
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How Your Kids Can Ruin Your Retirement — and How to Make Sure They Don’t
Parents are spending $500 billion a year supporting their adult children—more than twice the amount they’re saving for retirement. How to help your kids without imperiling your golden years. By Reshma Kapadia.
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Can human mortality be hacked?
Silicon Valley is built on the idea that technology can optimize, or "hack," any aspect of our lives — so why not the human life span? Until recently, anyone hawking pills or treatments that promised to restore youthfulness was considered a quack, yet a growing number of "transhumanists" are convinced that, in time, human beings can be transformed through bioengineering, and that aging will be curable just like any other malady.
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Aging Is a Communication Breakdown
Genes that can’t express themselves may be hallmarks of cancer. By Jim Kozubek.
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Can exercise reverse the ageing process?
It's not for everyone, but older athletes are pushing the limits of what the body can do as it ages.
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How Japan is helping pensioners stay happy and have fun
Japan is rethinking society for its growing old-age population, with specially-designed housing and jobs that can be shared.
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Ernie Harwell's estate drained by family infighting
Court files show the estate of legendary Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell and his wife, Lulu, has been sucked dry.
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Dementia's hidden darkness: Violence and domestic abuse
From aggressive patients with Alzheimer's to frustrated caregivers, dementia is increasingly entwined with violence in private homes and residential facilities.
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Most caregivers of people with dementia are family members, and they need help
November is National Family Caregivers Month; did they get your attention? If not, you are not alone. Family caregivers are overlooked by the health care system, and they are burning out. Here's why.
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Is Silicon Valley's quest for immortality a fate worse than death?
China’s first emperor ordered his subjects to search for the elixir of life in a quest for immortality. In 16th century France, nobles would drink gold in a bid to extend their lifespans. Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king at the heart of humanity’s earliest epic poem, found a magic herb, but a snake ate it. In 2015, a woman on the MTV series True Life: I’m Obsessed With Staying Young bathed in pig blood.
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Beware of Buying Young People's Blood to Prevent Aging, FDA Says
Taking a young person’s plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging -- a therapy that’s fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley -- has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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How to Become a ‘Superager’
Think about the people in your life who are 65 or older. Some of them are experiencing the usual mental difficulties of old age, like forgetfulness or a dwindling attention span. Yet others somehow manage to remain mentally sharp. My father-in-law, a retired doctor, is 83 and he still edits books and runs several medical websites.
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Sex Chromosomes Hold the Secret to Female Longevity
Around the world, women outlive men. This is true in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, even during severe epidemics and famine. In most animal species, females live longer than males. Now, scientists at UC San Francisco have zeroed in on a possible genetic mechanism for this highly durable phenomenon, that – while it does not preclude the influence of other biological, social and environmental factors – suggests an important role for the second X chromosome, which is present in female mammals. The X chromosome contains many genes related to the brain, and it is crucial for survival.
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Longevity scientists launch academy to raise profile of life-extending research
Among the goals of the group, called the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, are to share findings and lobby governments in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to increase funding and create pathways to approve age-slowing therapies.
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A cell-killing strategy to slow aging passed its first test this year
Are tired-out cells what make people old? A new generation of drugs is designed to wipe them out.The small study in people with lung disease, reported in January, is being billed as the first attempt at “senolytics,” or employing drugs to clear people’s bodies of aged, toxic cells. Some researchers think this strategy could eventually be employed in healthy people to delay aging.
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Holocaust Paradox: Long Lives for Those Who Survived
My elementary school teacher taught that those who emerged from the horrors of the camps would die young. A reasonable assumption, but wrong.
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Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
Japan is in the grip of an elderly crime wave. Poverty and loneliness are two of the possible causes.
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64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant
David Wimsett's resume is expansive, and potential employers are always keen to meet with him. When they finally do, however, the interviewer's disposition quickly switches from enthusiastic to disappointed.
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Tech writer suggests '10 Year Challenge' may be collecting data for facial recognition algorithm
As innocuous as it may seem, the viral “10 Year Challenge” flooding social media feeds everywhere may have been created to collect large amounts of data for future facial recognition software, according to one prominent tech writer.
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Here If You Need Me: Learning to Be Present While Fighting for Your Father
When fighting on behalf of the father you love, who do you become? By Beth Kephart.
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