Healthy Aging

As the most recent — and virulent — of COVID variants spreads across the country, U.S. seniors have mostly ignored the available boosters. Is it time to increase our vigilance against a pandemic that refuses to retreat?

Tips from an ARORA-certified trainer on maintaining strength, mobility, and endurance to make your long-term travel goals a reality.

Medicare scam artists — and the agency’s own complacency — make the annual enrollment season more hazardous than it needs to be.

Recent research suggests heavy sleepers like me may avoid cognitive dysfunction and multimorbidity as we age — with some notable caveats.

Just as cheaper over-the-counter hearing aids finally become widely available, researchers are trumpeting new approaches to hearing loss that may render those devices unnecessary.

A landmark study suggests that colonoscopies do not reduce the risk of cancer — or mortality — nearly as much as advertised. That’s welcome news for the millions of seniors who, like me, stubbornly avoid the procedure.

A Q&A with the designer of the new ARORA Cycle format on how indoor cycling can be an accessible workout for people of all fitness abilities.

The latest miracle cure for Alzheimer’s is likely to receive accelerated approval from the FDA, which benefits as much from the cash that accompanies these requests as Big Pharma does from the agency’s lax standards.

Arthritic knees often send seniors looking for various surgical solutions, even as recent research — and personal experience — suggests the most reliable remedy may simply involve moving those troublesome joints more frequently.