Growing up and growing old are two of the most significant experiences and achievements of human consciousness that become more challenging as the aging process gets underway. First, there is the ...

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 ...

Robert Browning’s quote ‘Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be’ is a timeless lesson on love, ageing, lifelong companionship and hope for the future.

Many people view aging with aversion, seeing it as something to fight rather than a natural part of life. Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir suggests old age is to be contrasted with life, not death.

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 ...

Readers, including a 101-year-old woman, react to a guest essay by Roger Rosenblatt about the challenges of aging. To the Editor: Re “It’s No Joke, Old Age,” by Roger Rosenblatt (Opinion guest essay, ...

Growing old isn't something to be feared, but rather something to embrace as a time of grace in one's life, Pope Francis wrote in a preface for a book that was not released before he died. "Yes, we ...