Honda Motor Co. plans to shake up job terms next fiscal year and lift its retirement age by five years to 65, making the carmaker one of Japan Inc.’s biggest companies to take action in coping with the nation’s aging demographics. Read the full article at Bloomberg.

No one wants to be labeled as “demented” —so why do we still use the term? We should no longer, according to the American Psychiatric Association, which has replaced “dementia” with the broader, more accurate and less pejorative term “neurocognitive disorder” in the latest diagnostic manual. With time, “dementia” may go the way of antiquated […]

Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and author of “Misbehaving,” a new book about the creation of behavioral economics, credits this once-maligned offshoot of economic science with helping millions of Americans save for retirement. But he is deeply concerned about the many others: those who, for whatever reason, choose […]

As people live longer, and spend more time in retirement, the challenge will be to get more out of those years. How do you find a rewarding second career? How do you stay close with friends and family? How do you maintain independence and mobility? How do you embrace new experiences? The equally simple answer: […]

Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, believes he’s found a way to do just that: to mirror the slow aging of the centenarians he has studied using a drug shown to have an anti-aging effect in some animals. In answer to skeptics who bristle at the […]

Of the family members caring for the more than 5 million Americans with Alzheimer’s, many never have conversations with their loved ones regarding what they want other people to do for them when they get sick or disabled. Read the full article at The New York Times.

“Almost universally, people say doctors should be talking to their patients about this,” said Liz Hamel, who directs public opinion research for the Kaiser Family Foundation. In a survey of 1,200 adults in September, more than 80 percent said Medicare should cover doctor-patient discussions of end-of-life treatment. A similar majority thought private insurers should, too. […]

A 2015 Influencer in Aging wants to see them take on a new mission. This article is part of Next Avenue’s 2015 Influencers in Aging project honoring 50 people changing how we age and think about aging. Here, Dr. Philip Pizzo, one of the Influencers, blogs about what he’d like to see colleges and universities […]

For greater warmth and nurturing, seniors are turning to small residences and privately owned care homes that are often unmarked in residential neighborhoods. They are usually newer, sometimes cheaper, and generally offer more customized care than most nursing homes. Read the full article at The New York Times.

Every year, Jerry Myroup travels to Jamaica with his wife to rock out to the band Little Feat. They like the fan appreciation resort weekends so much that they started wondering how they could live like this all the time, for the rest of their lives. Could they actually rock till they drop? “It all […]