Eight years ago, Deb Shaw stepped into the shower of her home in Los Gatos, California, and her vision blurred. She wobbled, fell and hit her head on the shower bench. Minutes later, she woke up on the floor.

Her head throbbed. Deb's husband, Bob Shaw, was out of town for work. Her 90-year-old father-in-law, Dale Shaw, was visiting. Deb couldn'...Read more

Shingles is a funny-sounding name for a seriously painful disease. How painful? That's hard to put into words. Printable ones, at least.

Officially, shingles pain can range from mild to severe. The words "itchy" and "burning" frequently come up in descriptions. Some use "horrendous" and "excruciating."

Sufferers might relate to David Letterman...Read more

Do not sit in the front row. It’s great advice, especially in the case of an interactive show like the Bright Lights Society’s rollicking good murder mystery aboard Cunard’s gorgeous new Queen Anne—and especially when you listen to said advice. Which I didn’t. Which is why I found myself a reluctant participant, soft shoeing before the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — DeLoyce Alcorn is 92 years old — and pressing nearly four times that in weight at the gym.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Alcorn — dressed in a T-Shirt that read "Be Strong. Be Resilient. Be You." — slid into the leg press machine, which was set at a whopping 312 pounds. He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and "...Read more

Donald Hammen, 80, and his longtime next-door neighbor in south Minneapolis, Julie McMahon, have an understanding. Every morning, she checks to see whether he’s raised the blinds in his dining room window. If not, she’ll call Hammen or let herself into his house to see what’s going on.

Should McMahon find Hammen in a bad way, she plans to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — DeLoyce Alcorn is 92 years old — and pressing nearly four times that in weight at the gym.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Alcorn — dressed in a T-Shirt that read "Be Strong. Be Resilient. Be You." — slid into the leg press machine, which was set at a whopping 312 pounds. He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and "...Read more

Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been walloped.

The losses have been so severe that would-be retirees need to work an extra six years on average before they can hang up their work boots—and they can...Read more

Voters heading to the polls in Jackson County have the chance to adopt a small property tax increase to fund services for seniors aged 60 and above through a ballot measure called Question 1.

The question reads, “Shall Jackson County, Missouri, levy a tax of five (5) cents per each one hundred (100) dollars assessed valuation for the purpose ...Read more

She never forgot the fateful day in 1961 that several classmates showed up at her door to seize her National Honor Society membership and deliver a message: She had been deemed “no longer honorable.”

Joanne Johnson Grimes was 15 and pregnant. School administrators forced her to drop out of Burlington City High School in New Jersey her ...Read more