Aging

Medical students who spend a year with seniors rethink aging, Jerusalem study finds

Ageism is prejudice directed toward someone based on their age, particularly older people, and it persists among clinicians and medical students, undermining empathy and care quality.

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Comparison of two brain diagrams. Left, normal brain, right, brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease.

'Aging in Wellness and Adversity': Embracing patients coping with old age, dementia - book review

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

New Israeli, US research shows that learning doesn't have to slow down because of human aging

Tech It Forward’s Jennifer Elias (L) and Jessica Rosner.

Start-ups in Jerusalem: Longevity firms bloom in Israel’s ancient capital


Why do many people start running when they reach the age of 40?

Fitness trainer Omer Rosenberg noticed that when people turn 40, they suddenly get a desire to get in shape or start running. Why does this happen?

  Runners at the Jerusalem Marathon 2022, March 25, 2022.

90-year-old claims to have secret to looking 20 years younger

Proper nutrition and training? It takes more than that.

 Close up macro portrait of an old man with a bucket hat on his head.

Researchers may have found way to slow aging - study

The study suggests detoxing glycerol and glyceraldehyde to live a longer life. 

 Scientists are trying to understand how the aging process works biologically.

Amid Bruce Willis revelation: How to help a loved one with dementia

For Willis' family, and other families of those with dementia, this is a very difficult experience because the disease changes the personality of the beloved one we knew.

Bruce Willis attends the 17th Annual A Great Night In Harlem at The Apollo Theater on April 04, 2019 in New York City.

Yale professor says Japan's old people should kill themselves in mass suicide

Yusuke Narita's controversial opinions have made him popular with Japan's youth, leading to his large social media following.

 A woman wearing a protective face mask walks on a street in snowfall, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan January 6, 2022.

AI technologies could be used to determine age bias

AI technologies have even more exaggerated biases in perception of facial age than humans

 Did Google's AI machine really gain sentience?

New research uncovers method to prevent DNA breakdown, aging - study

The research focuses on a protein called SIRT6, which seems to have remarkable properties.

 What are the scientific processes behind aging?

Is AI the future of elder care?

The technology is designed to ease carers' burdens while allowing older people to remain independent for longer.

Illustrative photo of two elderly people staring at a beach.

Do you look young for your age? Study examines effects of aging on body

If you look young for your age, the health of your body and mind is likely a reflection of that.

 Close up macro portrait of an old man with a bucket hat on his head.

Old mice regain eyesight and develop younger brain in new study

The study also cites information theory of aging, which states that "a loss of epigenetic information is a reversible cause of aging." 

 A mouse.