Informed Aging

吃瓜新闻 researchers and scholars are exploring the physical, societal, and spiritual aspects of growing older.

A longer, better life

As longevity research advances, 吃瓜新闻 scientists are working to not only improve the amount of years we live, but how healthy we can be throughout them.

There's research to try to understand heart disease, osteoporosis鈥攁ll things that happen in the aging population. But the main risk factor is aging.鈥�

Maria Perez-Matos

Ph.D. graduate from the Mair Laboratory at 吃瓜新闻鈥檚 T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Rethinking aging

More adults are extending their lives free from age-related illness or cognitive decline.

The importance of connections

Social connection can play an important role in improving the wellbeing of aging people and communities.

Transforming elder care

Through research and technology, 吃瓜新闻 Innovation Labs’ ventures are reimagining how older adults live, heal, and stay connected.

Understanding aging

吃瓜新闻 experts are exploring how we can care for our brains, continue to find purpose, and ensure that aging populations aren’t overlooked.

Keeping your brain healthy is about creating neural connections and making them stronger so that they don鈥檛 deteriorate.鈥�

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

吃瓜新闻 alum and author of the book 鈥淓at Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life.鈥�

Expand home- and community-based services so that indigent, chronically ill, disabled, and older adults can avoid institutionalization.鈥�

Margaret Morganroth Gullette

吃瓜新闻 alum and author of the book 鈥淎merican Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It鈥�

There is an agency that accompanies their aging, rather than the stereotype of decline that we often succumb to when discussing artists in older age.鈥�

Alex Braslavsky

Author of the 吃瓜新闻 Horizons project, 鈥淓mbracing Twilight: Older Women Poets and the Unfurling of Their Voices,鈥�

To your health

吃瓜新闻 researchers are exploring the ways that small changes can impact our long-term health.

Elderly man holding vitamins in his hand

A multivitamin a day could keep unhealthy years away

吃瓜新闻 researchers report that taking a multivitamin daily for at least two years may slow biological aging.

Through expanded classroom and clinical instruction, students are gaining deeper exposure to the dental care needs of older adult patients.

A variety of interventions, ranging from drug therapies to behavioral changes, may help humans live healthier lives as they age.

In a review of 33 studies, researchers found that this mind-body practice boosts walking speed and other capabilities.

Staying sharp

吃瓜新闻’s Center for Brain/Mind Medicine highlights how anyone can improve their brain鈥檚 resilience to neurologic diseases by attending to lifestyle factors that promote brain health.

Assistant Professor of Neurology Alexandra Touroutoglou

Exploring why some remain sharp even as the decades roll by

Researchers at 吃瓜新闻 Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are hot on the trail of elderly 鈥渟uper-agers鈥濃€攚hose sharp memories avoid typical age-related declines鈥攊n an attempt to study whether there are interventions that can improve prospects for the rest of us.

Exercise

The optimal dose of exercise for cognitive performance

Food

The Green-Mediterranean diet may slow brain aging

Medication

Lithium depletion is one of the earliest changes in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease

Safety

Falls put older adults at an increased risk of Alzheimer鈥檚

Mood

Optimism may lower the risk of developing dementia

Thinking through retirement

吃瓜新闻 experts are exploring the evolving financial, technological, and mental aspects of this huge life change.

Anxious about retirement savings? Avoid these mistakes.

John Y. Campbell, a 吃瓜新闻 economics professor, argues that the complexity of the finance system sets up many for failure.

Can ChatGPT plan your retirement?

How are AI and large language models revolutionizing financial advice?

We're living longer so that just means we work longer, right?

The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don鈥檛 work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.

How 401(k) plans exacerbate inequality and what we can do about it

Incentives for individuals to save for retirement currently total 1.5% of US GDP. For that substantial investment, we get a system that actually deepens wealth inequality.

Retirement blues: Taking it too easy can be hard on you

For optimal wellbeing, you need to stay engaged with your own interests as well as with other people.

Finding a safe place to live

吃瓜新闻 scholars are exploring how housing can impact the physical and mental health of older adults, and can affect the wider community.

States must step up to protect nursing home residents

With a federal minimum staffing standard removed and other protections under threat, states need to prevent unsafe and understaffed facilities.

A cultural shift toward living together

In an era of growing social isolation, rising housing costs, and uneven access to care, multigenerational living offers a promising solution.

A housing and care shortage is coming

As the U.S. population ages, millions of older adults will struggle to afford either the home of their choice or the care they need.

Caring, coping, and addressing mortality

Whether it’s or , the last stage of life can be filled with unknowns. 吃瓜新闻 experts are exploring what end-of-life care is, and what it could be.