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How These Animals Stay Forever Young
A handful of species have seemingly avoided the aging process. By Erica Tennenhouse.
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‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans
The rate of those 65 and older filing for bankruptcy is three times what it was in 1991, a new study finds, as more enter their later years in a precarious position.
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Scientists have reversed some signs of aging in a study on mice
Scientists have come one step closer to creating a drug that can reverse signs of aging, including hair loss, in a study on mice. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine used an experimental compound—called D-threo-1-phenyl-2-decanoylamino-3-morpholino-1-propanol (D-PDMP)—to undo damage in mice linked to a diet high in fat and cholesterol. The paper published in the journal Scientific Reports is based on a previous study that suggested fatty foods affect the production of fats called glycosphingolipids (GLS), which make up the skin and other cell membranes.
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Midlife crisis? It’s a myth. Why life gets better after 50
Beware midlife! You will be prone to sudden, disruptive upheaval. Around the age of 50 your productivity, creativity and adaptability begin their inexorable decline. With them, happiness ebbs. Your best years are behind you. Naturally, your job, marriage and shattered aspirations are to blame. If you or someone important in your life shows symptoms of midlife restlessness, be alarmed! The dashboard is flashing red.
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Will Not Let Me Go
Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. By Stephen Granade.
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There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Dammit, you big stupid orange dog, I love you.
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Why the pharmaceutical industry is giving up the search for an Alzheimer’s cure
Over a century after Alzheimer's was discovered, we still don't have a good way to treat it. Why? Because the disease is way more complex than researchers ever thought.
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Drugs that kill off old cells may limit a body’s aging
Mice given a drug combo see a reverse of some problems caused by senescent cells.
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Removing aged cells from mice can restore youth, boosting human studies
If creaky old humans were more like dilapidated old kitchens, rejuvenation would be as simple as replacing cracked and faded Formica with gleaming new granite. But perhaps, a booming new scientific field hypothesizes, biological renovation might be more possible than one might expect.
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Even Silicon Valley’s Elite Age, but for How Long?
by Patrick Griffin figures by Abby Burrus There has been much talk in recent years about the disconnectedness of coastal elites, epitomized by Silicon Valley characters such as VC-mogul Peter Thiel and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their wealth and fame make them appear god-like, free of the mortal cares of middle-America. Yet, death, the great equalizer...
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The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age
A new study found those who reported walking faster were less likely to die prematurely.
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Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
The social media platform enables companies to illegally focus on younger candidates, according to an expanded class-action.
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How the Midlife Crisis Came to Be
Over the course of a few years in the 20th century, the midlife crisis went from an obscure psychological theory to a ubiquitous phenomenon.
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How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly
Telephone pitches, online scams and greedy family members are targeting the most vulnerable among us, and it’s about to get much worse.
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Life gets better after 50: why age tends to work in favour of happiness
Jonathan Rauch, author of The Happiness Curve, was relieved to find an explanation for his gloom – academics say adulthood happiness is U-shaped
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Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing?
The evidence is lacking.
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The five habits that can add more than a decade to your life
People who stick to five healthy habits in adulthood can add more than a decade to their lives, according to a major study into the impact behaviour has on lifespan. Researchers at Harvard University used lifestyle questionnaires and medical records from 123,000 volunteers to understand how much longer people lived if they followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke.
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This Famous Aging Researcher Doesn’t Want Us to Live Forever
In the Netflix anime series Knights of Sidonia, humankind is marooned in a spaceship 500,000-strong, refugees constantly on the run from shapeshifting aliens who destroyed Earth over 1,000 years ago. Both the patriarchy and poverty have been smashed. Advances in genetic engineering have allowed androgynous individuals to proliferate and asexual reproduction to become commonplace. Everybody (except the protagonist, a clone of his grandfather) can photosynthesize, drastically reducing the need to eat.
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World's oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117
The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died. Nabi Tajima died of old age in a hospital Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She had been hospitalized since January. Tajima, born on August 4, 1900, was the last known person born in the 19th century. She reportedly had more than 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren. Her town of Kikai is in Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands.
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How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
Age discrimination can be very hard to prove.In a ProPublica feature that collected the stories of over 1,400 former IBM employees, it was estimated that a staggering 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over have been eliminated by the company. How does one of the country’s largest tech giants quietly push out this many older workers? Don’t we have laws to protect people at the end of their careers?
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