People in their late nineties or older are often healthier and more robust than those 20 years younger. Traditional views of aging may need rethinking…more

Decrepitude isn't inevitable. New research shows we all have the tools to live longer lives and die faster deaths…more

Studying people who live 100 years and more leads Harvard researchers to conclude that menopause is a major determinant of the life spans of both women and men…more

Death and taxes are still certain, but according to a Medical School study, the mental infirmities of old age are not. Neuropsychological examinations and autopsies of people who live past 100 show that they can live to the end with sound minds, report the researchers in the upcoming issue of International Psychogeriatrics…more

The Hadza people of northern Tanzania are a small group of hunter-gatherers who share a language, a culture and a distaste for gardening. Time and again, government and church agencies have sought to transmute them into full-time farmers, but the Hazda have always returned to the bush, where they subsist on wild goods like fruits, honey, tubers and game. The terrain is hard and hilly, and so is the life, but on one incomparable resource the foragers can always rely: a pack of old ladies with hearts like young horses…more

Most people become decrepit as they age. Those who live to be a hundred seem to have a special genetic endowment which slows this process down HUNDREDTH birthday parties, though still rare, are no longer exceptional…more