Bits Blog: Sticky Old People
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Waterfront Media raises $25 million to expand its health and fitness Web business, another example of money flowing into sites that target older users.
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By Andrew Cassel, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 4--Grandma and Grandpa used to fill our young ears with tales of the Great Depression.   It's hardly going to be as interesting when we sit our own grandchildren down and tell them about living through the Great Moderation.
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Baby boomers, after years of making noise, face hearing loss and a new group of devices they once made fun of.
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Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.
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The elderly are being eyed as a potential market for personal assistant robots that could help them live independently longer.
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Sticky situation A nonagenarian German handyman has continued the time-honoured Teutonic tradition of getting stuck to roofs, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.â¦
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A handful of people, mostly elderly, are so good at working out when someone is truthful that experts yesterday called them the &quot;wizards&quot; of lie detection.
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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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Changes to Medicare have many seniors in a tailspin. Prescription drug cards, managed care, Medigap, Part B -- they can&#39;t sort it out on their own, and the constant barrage of targeted advertisements and slick-sounding come-ons don&#39;t help.
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Old dogs may really find it hard to learn new tricks, a study of how memories form has suggested.
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In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor. She's so well- liked in her the retirement community of nearly 1,000 that no one is opposing her re-election this week, and her next two-year term will last through the end of 2006, or nine months past her 98th birthday.
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By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 19--At first glance, the computer room doesn't look much like a  doorway.   But that's exactly what it is for senior citizens stepping into the cyber  age.
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By Jon Wise  GOOD on the Silver Surfers - OAPs looking for love on the internet through their rose-tinted bifocals.   Shirley, right, Bernie and Pat - with a combined age of 228 - spend hours searching the web for Mr/Mrs Right, who had better hurry up before one of them carks it.
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A new initiative seeks to improve old products.
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By Maria Puente  Think teens and twentysomethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It's Grandma and grandkids -- some too young to read -- who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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Seniors lose interest quickly in mechanical helpmates, though some gadgets are a hit.
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OK, shredders, dudes, dudettes, rugrats, whippersnappers, all of you out of the room. Go find something else to do today. Clean your room or something. This one's for your parents, or even grandparents.