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Here’s a question to ponder during Healthy Aging Month: What is “old?” Statistically, the median age is 37.8, so when you pass that mark, you are older than 50% of people. But studies show that people don’t start feeling old until their 60s, and in a recent poll, respondents said 68 was the average age

Some advice on getting older: Listen to what your pediatrician told you when you were a kid.

Healthy Aging Month, celebrated each September, is a time to focus attention on the positive aspects of growing older. 

Meet Flossie Lewis, a charming 91-year-old who’s crippled on the outside but feels 15 on the inside. 

UnitedHealthcare has been polling centenarians annually for the past nine years, and the studies document that the 100+ age group is overall happy, well adjusted and not burdened with regrets. This year’s study, summarized in USA Today, finds that centenarians on average feel about 83. (Baby boomers also were surveyed this year, and on average

Olga Kotelko is off-the-charts amazing.  She took up track and field at age 77 and at age 94 she holds 26 world records including age-group bests in the high jump, the hammer throw and the 200-meter run. But how did she do that?  And how is she aging so well? Writer Bruce Grierson wanted to