Research reveals that the deepest loneliness after 65 comes not from empty houses but from full ones—where decades of ...

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Health Minister Mark Butler’s decision to axe higher private health insurance rebates for over-65s, triggering widespread ...

Money raised from the change will be used to pay for 5000 new aged care beds, dementia care units and a policy backflip on ...

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A new analysis of hypertension guidelines suggests some older adults — mostly women — with slightly high blood pressure could safely hold off on medications if they’re otherwise in relatively good ...

Demographics, rising profits and soaring asset values have together wrought a quiet transformation in the American economy. Much of it is now in the hands of the elderly. As of the third quarter of ...

Only 13.9 percent of adults over 65 meet federal guidelines for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity each week.

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When Diana Nyad was 64 years old, she swam 110 miles from Cuba to Florida, becoming the first person to do so without a shark cage. It was her fifth attempt over the course of 3½ decades. “I said when ...