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Topic: senior citizens

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to pardon the National Thanksgiving turkeys, Liberty and Bell during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on November 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Sure, Joe's old. Could you do it?

Kirk Swearingen
Harrison Ford and Lukita Maxwell in "Shrinking" (Apple TV+)

Harrison Ford's grandpa renaissance

Alison Stine
Mitch McConnell Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why "age caps" can't fix democracy

Winslow Erik Wright
Supporters of President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Your MAGA parents can be persuaded

Brian F. Harrison
Democratic presidential candidate entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the Climate Forum at Georgetown University, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Andrew Yang 2020 — but not for president

Bob Hennelly
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

How America fails to feed its aging

Laura Ungar, Trudy Lieberman - KFF Health News
(AP)

Vulnerable demographics for health care

Marcia G. Ory - The Conversation
(Lisa F. Young)

America’s graying population in 3 maps

Peter Rogerson - The Conversation
(Spencer Platt)

AARP draws flak for marketing practices

Paul Feldman - FairWarning
(Shutterstock/hxdbzxy)

Infection lapses rampant in nursing home

Jordan Rau - KFF Health News

The problems with home health care

Melissa Bailey - KFF Health News
(<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/silviajansen'>SilviaJansen</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

boomerang seniors

Sharon Jayson - KFF Health News

Music, memory and dementia

Andrew O'Hehir
Fanny Ardant in "Bright Days Ahead"

Fanny Ardant loves danger

Andrew O'Hehir
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1448759p1.html'>LoloStock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

My sexual awakening at 70

Lynn Brown Rosenberg

Enron's revenge!

Gary Cohn, Bill Raden
John Boehner (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Whoops! Boehner gets Obamacare

Brian Beutler
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-78238p1.html'>Nejron Photo</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-156268p1.html'>aastock</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Legalize pot for seniors' sake

Jon Lovett
(AP)

The next cut: Social Security?

Josh Eidelson
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1452857p1.html'> NicoElNino Bramwell</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Tom Jacobs - Pacific Standard
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