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Topic: old age

Senior man and assistant in the park (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

Long-term care staffing crisis worsens

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Galapagos Tortoise (Getty Images/Mark Newman)

Animals hold the key to ultra-longevity

Steven N. Austad
Old man with a cup of tea (Getty Images/ jeangill)

A brief history of old age

Sharon DeWitte - The Conversation
Between Heaven And Hell by David Talblot (Chronicle Prism)

My post-stroke existentialism

Nicole Karlis
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These women have one another's backs

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
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Study: There may not be an age ceiling

Nicole Stock
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Can humans really live past 115?

Olga Mecking
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Reuters/Jim Bourg)

Our destructive fear of aging

Jimmie Holland, Mindy Greenstein
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Janet Allon - Alternet

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-248533p1.html'>Denis Radovanovic</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Waking up nearly blind

Lillian Rubin

Lauran Neergaard, Jennifer Agiesta
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