For Successful aging, genetics, lifestyle decision making, and their interactions, may influence the ability to reach old age with preserved cognition.

A drug made to enhance memory appears to trigger a natural mechanism in the brain that fully reverses age related memory loss.

There may be a link between the innate biological clock, known as the circadian clock, and aging.

Prospects for tomorrow's elderly as baby boomers head for retirement.

Attitudes about aging contradict reality.

Calorie restriction has some specific anti aging effects that are due to lower energy intake, rather than to leanness.

The effects of aging are lessened by trimming just a few calories from the daily diet.

2006 is likely to be the first year in human history when women can expect to outlive men.

Longer studies are required to determine if calorie restriction changes the aging process in humans.

The finding may help explain why cognitive problems in old age, including dementia, are associated with falls.

Researchers have created a 12 item index that can accurately predict the likelihood of death within four years for people 50 and older.

Older women who attend religious services frequently are more likely to participate in leisure time physical activity.

Since aging is so complex, it's unlikely that one pill or procedure can slow the process.

Wrinkles, gray hair and bifocals. Past a certain age, evidence of aging is all too obvious. But so far, no single theory explains how or why aging occurs.

Researchers generally view aging as many processes or factors that interact and influence each other, including cellular wear and tear; DNA damage; hormone changes; immune system changes; and free radicals (unstable oxygen molecules).

The report features an in depth look at the 55 to 64 age group, which includes the oldest of the baby boomers.

The gene, known as SIRT1, suppresses longevity, and may play a role in regulating the aging process.