Being able to stay in their homes and remain independent is a daily struggle for many older adults. As we age we tend to lose our flexibility, our connective tissue tightens, and we have prolonged reaction times. Problems with vision, including all

Self-esteem rises steadily as people age but starts declining around the time of retirement, according to a longitudinal study of men and women ranging in age from 25 to 104. "Self-esteem is related to better health, less criminal behavior, of a

More than one in four elderly Americans lacked the capacity to make their own medical care decisions at the end of life in a study of published in the New England Journal of Medicine.Those who had done advance directives—including living or

Alzheimer's disease affects an estimated 5.3 million Americans, and that number is expected to double by 2050. Caregivers shoulder a particularly heavy burden as the illness alters the dementia patient's behavior, mood, and judgment, impeding his a

The proportion of older middle-aged Americans who report disabilities related to mobility increased significantly from 1997 to 2007, in contrast to the disability decline that has been found among Americans ages 65 and over, says a new study by the

The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer scientists have discovered. RSA authentication is a popular encryption method used

Conventional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law-enforcement officers for a range of scenarios—canvassing a crowd for criminal activity, searching for who left a suitcase beneath a bench, or trying to pick out a suspect who

As the president and members of Congress consider possible home-mortgage consumer protection, policymakers and analysts continue to dispute causes of the 2007-2008 foreclosure crisis, which triggered a much deeper and more serious financial crisis

One major aspect missing from recent health-care reform conversations is housing, especially with regard to the aging population of the U.S., say three University of Arkansas researchers.The researchers—Korydon Smith, Jennifer Webb, and to

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, have developed a new gene therapy that they claim is safe and effective in reversing advanced heart failure. The gene therapy, SERCA2a, produced under the brand name Mydicar, is to of