This is not a review of the research literature on aging. It’s a report of one aging person about the experience of growing older. Often, elderly people don’t want to discuss the intimate details of ...

We talk about the names of cocktails a lot in this space, and the reason we do is that they matter more than you might think. Forget national fame—even on the single bar’s menu, a drink simply won’t ...

The old men and women in Stacy Torres’s new book, At Home in the Big City: Growing Old in Urban America, (UC Press; $29.95), are not like the original members of the Grey Panthers, the organization ...

Older readers offer a range of perspectives in response to a column by Charles M. Blow. To the Editor: Re “The Beauty of Embracing Aging,” by Charles M. Blow (column, June 6): I admire Mr. Blow’s ...

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Mr ZHANG HAS stared down death during his 90 years on Earth. He has been diagnosed with cancer twice. During his latest bout doctors gave him 18 months to live. “That was 16 years ago,” he recalls ...