The concept of biological age — the true age that our cells, tissues, and organ systems appear to be, based on biochemistry, according to the National Institute on Aging — is gaining traction ...

Future Directions for the Demography of Aging is, in many ways, the successor to that original volume. The Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) asked the ...

Researchers monitored 733 women aged 80 and above over five years, finding that those who developed increased daytime ...

Cutting calorie intake by just 12 per cent can extend your life by boosting energy and rejuvenating muscles, a new study says. Ditching calories while maintaining vitamin and mineral levels, known ...

Aging brains may struggle to clear out waste, contributing to memory loss and diseases like Alzheimer’s. But researchers have ...

Funding for the study included the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health through a grant from the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (P30AG017265 ...

This supplemental issue was supported by the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (R01AG043538, R01AG048511), and NORC at the University of Chicago, which was responsible for ...

New research my team and I published in the journal Science Advances suggests that long-term exposure to extreme heat may speed up biological aging at the molecular level, raising concerns about the ...

Low socioeconomic status, chronic conditions, and inconsistent insurance coverage are linked to unhealthy aging trajectories in middle-aged US adults, shows a recent study.