Ageism can have real consequences for the health of older people, including shorter life expectancy and reduced access to health care, researchers say.

A way to turn back the clock on fruit flies' aging heart muscles could lead to new treatments for older humans with heart disease.

In a new study, people in middle age who had higher amounts of fat in their mid-section had worse fluid intelligence as they got older.

Protein levels in a drop of blood can accurately predict someone's age, researchers say. The discovery sheds new light on how we age differently.

Researchers may have a new way to fight Werner Syndrome, which causes early aging and death, with supplements that boost the breakdown of mitochondria.

Social and physical changes in the home can help older adults live alone more easily and protect their cognition, researchers say.

Age may be an asset for people with type 2 diabetes. A new study shows younger patients feel more stressed about the diagnosis, leading to worse health.

Eating a diet that includes more plants and less meat when you're middle aged may delay or prevent cognitive impairment when you get older.

One woman's resistance to genetic, early-onset Alzheimer's disease may hold the key to future therapies for the neurodegenerative disease.

For older adults, wearable activity trackers "outperformed well-established mortality risk factors such as age, cancer, diabetes, and smoking,"