Each year, the month of May is proclaimed Older Americans Month throughout the nation. The Administration on Aging develops a theme for Older Americans Month and disseminates the theme to the entire aging network.

A Novel Program Helps Older Adults With Aging in Place

Four out of five older Americans with hearing loss just ignore it, in part because a hearing aid is an unwelcome sign of aging. But what if hearing aids looked like stylish fashion accessories and could be bought at your local pharmacy like reading glasses?

Please Come Join Us for the Project FIND Art Fair and Fundraiser. Doors open at 11 in the morning -- there will be art and jewelry for sale -- and in the afternoon we will have music with pianists and light jazz vocalists!  Come on by -- it's gonna be a great day!

Economists from Stanford and Brown report that the age group most likely to have grown more polarized in political beliefs in recent years was the over-65 set

File this one under Things You See in New York

When my dog Toby was 11, I checked out a book on anti-aging for dogs from the library. I left to run a few errands and returned later to a grisly scene.  I found the mangled book on the floor, cover gnawed off, two chapters torn apart and puncture wounds to the appendix.

Dorothy Rice—who passed away on February 25, 2017, at the age of 94—was a giant in the field of health services research, conducting groundbreaking studies, and mentoring others who continue to contribute to the field. Her pioneering study of health insurance coverage of the aged based on the 1962 Survey of the Aged was instrumental in the enactment of Medicare.