Under One Roof, Aging Together Yet Alone
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In the past decade, the number of elderly Americans in assisted living has tripled, to nearly one million.
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DOGDORE, Chad The sun beat down on 18-month-old Izzedine Adam, who sat naked and crying on the floor of his roofless straw hut. His mother cannot afford a sturdier home or ev en clothes to protect him from the cold desert nights. For now, she is just trying to find enough food to keep him alive.
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Lessons from two world-traveling retirees.
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The number of households with five or more people has fallen by half since '70, while living solo is more popular.
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The countryÂs first apartment community for creative older people has put the latest spin on late-life living.
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A more gentle form of yoga is catching on in some retirement communities. The yoga mat is replaced by the chair. Sometimes two.
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Four decades after it was abandoned, King Island holds an almost mystical pull for former inhabitants and their descendants, its crumbling homes still perched on stilts, clinging to the steep, rocky terrain.
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The two gatherings, less than 200 miles apart, seemed to be separated by whole worlds. In this isolated village deep in the pine and cedar woods of
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A central issue only now being systematically addressed is why some people age well and others do not.
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A one-year vow seems pretty straightforward, but there's always a gray area
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At Bungalow Billiards in Chantilly on Wednesday, about a dozen single parents from Northern Virginia gathered at happy hour to mingle, eat and drink. All were divorced or widowed members of the Fairfax chapter of Parents Without Partners.
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Scientists have been preaching the benefits of mental exercise to seniors for years, but a new study may be the clincher that some people in their golden years have been waiting for.
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It is unsettling evidence of oneâs own age and station in life to find that electronic music â once virgin territory for the young explorer â now includes within its ranks a small army of grand old men.
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For years, the Doyle sisters have done everything they can so their uncle Daniel, who has a mental disability, can live on his own. They have helped manage his finances, made sure he has taken his medications and rushed to his side when necessary, allowing him to keep his small subsidized apartment...
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Unlike dating sites that treat being single as a predicament, this one celebrates flying solo.
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Where some see stasis, those of us of a certain age tend to see slow-swinging pendulums. Where some perceive exciting ideas as brand new, others perceive in them shades of the past.
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Couples who exercise together, experts have always said, are more likely to stick to a fitness plan than those who go it alone. But a new study, offering a twist on the old-fashioned buddy system, has found