A study of 145,000 European observations finds social networks may buffer the memory cost of not working, and the pattern differs for women and men.
A Nature Aging study of 86,149 Europeans found slower ageing where multilingualism is common. What it shows, and what it doesn't.
About one in ten adults over 50 live alone with no partner or children. Here is how solo agers are planning ahead and building villages of their own.
A 13-year Baltimore study tracked 637 older adults and found pet owners' thinking skills faded more slowly. Companionship and routine may be why.
A landmark study followed more than 70,000 people and found the most optimistic lived the longest. Here is what it does, and does not, prove.
A Monash study of 10,800 older Australians found those who kept music in their lives had lower dementia risk. Here is what it does not say.
A study of nearly 205,000 adults across 22 countries found people most content with their friendships reported the best mental and physical health.
A study of almost 1,900 older adults found the most culturally active had a physiological age about three years below the least engaged.
A study of older adults in Sichuan found the urge to volunteer tracked with aging well, partly through small, everyday acts of kindness.
A six-year study found grandparents who cared for grandchildren scored higher on memory and verbal tests, no matter how often they helped.
A large European study found retirement tends to ease loneliness in the long run, not deepen it, for those who keep rebuilding their social lives.
Transamerica's 25th annual survey of 2,690 retirees finds 89% call themselves happy, while only 27% feel very confident about their finances.
