77-Year-Old Jane Fonda: Aging Well & Wisely
Hollywood legend Jane Fonda has gone from playing a voluptuous intergalactic agent in Barbarella and winning an Oscar for her role in Klute, to sporting a leotard as a fitness guru, being a breast cancer survivor and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, which she...
5 Facts About Family Caregivers
If you're reading this in a public place, chances are you're surrounded by some of the 60 million-plus people in America who are caring for a loved one. And with November being National Family Caregivers month, the Pew Research Center recently highlighted these...
Why America Needs 3D Aging
Wait. 3D aging... does that involve funny, dark glasses? Nope. Three-dimensional aging takes false narratives such as "70 is the new 50" and "it's all downhill from here" and replaces them with what Dr. Bill Thomas calls "a fully developed portrait" of aging. By...
How Young Entrepreneurs Are Helping the Aging Population
A growing number of young entrepreneurs are creating start-ups geared toward baby boomers and seniors. Whether these Millennials and Gen-Xers are driven by profit potential or idealism (or both), the market is a huge one: as of 2014 there were 46.2 million people age...
LGBT Seniors Celebrated in Documentary Film “Gen Silent”
For today's gay youth it's hard to imagine there was a time in America when homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder, and gay sex -- even in private homes -- was punishable by anything from a light fine to a life sentence in prison. But members of the LGBT...
How To Celebrate National Family Caregivers Month
Exhausted. Pushing back tears because there's literally no time for tears. Doing a happy dance because you've made it through another day: this is but a sampling of daily emotions felt by America's 60 million plus caregivers. We're sons and daughters taking care of...
50 People Who Are Influencing How We Think About Aging
What do the cartoonist Roz Chast, Encore.org founder Marc Freedman and scientist Dr. Linda P. Fried all have in common? Along with 47 others on NextAvenue's 2015 Influencers in Aging list, they are changing how we think about aging and the ways that we age. Dr. Atul...
How To Age Well If You’re Single and/or Childless
Although there is no guarantee that children will take care of their parents in old age, this isn’t even an option for many aging Baby Boomers. That's because one in three Boomers is single as a result of never marrying, being divorced or widowed. Even if single...
How Lancome Sabotaged Its Own Campaign
America has a problem with aging. Not because the nation's senior population is growing like kudzu, but because of how we tend to view older age: as a time of enfeeblement and disappearance—from ourselves and society. Rather than seeing ourselves as growing more...
Proof That The Issue Of Caregiving Won’t Go Away
So far Hillary Clinton - who cared for her own aging mother - is the only 2016 presidential candidate to call for legislative support to family caregivers. But that doesn't discourage America's caregiver advocates: as the campaign season heats up, they plan to build...