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Topic: senescence

Woman struggling to sleep at night (Getty Images/Motortion)

Abidemi Otaiku
Brain scans (Getty Images/Andrew Brookes)

What frontotemporal dementia does to you

Fen-Biao Gao - The Conversation
Senior man and assistant in the park (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

Long-term care staffing crisis worsens

Michelle Andrews - KFF Health News
Nursing home resident is visited by their daughter, wearing face mask (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Staffing crunches in nursing homes

Tony Leys - KFF Health News
Female medical professional in Personal Protective Equipment (Getty Images)

Weighing risks of a major surgery

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Mature woman caring for her elderly mother (Getty Images/Alistair Berg)

When caregivers need caregivers

Pamela Appea
Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Should older seniors risk major surgery?

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Senior man and assistant in the park (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

Emotional labor prematurely aged me

Becca Willow Moss
Shop selling coffins and funeral wreaths (Getty Images/urbazon)

Business booms in the death industry

Markian Hawryluk - 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
Doctor taking patient's blood pressure (Getty Images/Siri Stafford)

Doctors overlook cure for hypertension

Mary Chris Jaklevic - Undark
Senior man with dogs and cat on his lap on bench (Getty Images/Jevtic)

Why having a pet is healthy for seniors

Nicole Karlis
Cleaning robot 'Franzi' cleans in the entrance area of a hospital in Munich Neuperlach, southern Germany, on February 12, 2021. - Cleaning robot Franzi always makes sure the floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, but she has also taken on a new role in the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Robots are coming for the elderly

Michelle Drouin
Between Heaven And Hell by David Talblot (Chronicle Prism)

My post-stroke existentialism

Nicole Karlis
Golden Hound and British short-haired cat (Getty Images/iStock)

In defense of siestas

Chris Idzikowski
Old man with a cup of tea (Getty Images/ jeangill)

80somethings on how to cope with aging

Katherine Esty
While it makes for a colorful analogy, comparing the brain to a muscle is inaccurate and misleading.

Can language learning prevent dementia?

Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz - MIT Press Reader
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Fountain of youth pill? Sure, for mice

Marisa Taylor - KFF Health News
FILE - This Feb. 20, 2015 file photo, photo shows an arrangement of peanuts in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File) (AP)

Why older adults should eat more protein

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
Vital Proteins' Collagen Peptides products (JP Yim/Getty Images for Vital Proteins)

Are collagen supplements snake oil?

Nicole Karlis
Pat Eaton-Robb/AP ((Pat Eaton-Robb/AP))

These women have one another's backs

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
(Getty/Ababsolutum)

Study: There may not be an age ceiling

Nicole Stock
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Can humans really live past 115?

Olga Mecking
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