Health
Fix Your Body
Your body is a machine. One that thinks, moves, creates. Sometimes it needs a tune-up, sometimes a major overhaul. We consult area medical experts about what to do when there's a breakdown.
Retirement Through the Ages
The news on retirement may seem dreary, but with a plan, some help and a little luck, you could be relaxing on a sunny beach (or your dream destination) when it comes time to put work away.
Creative Retirement
For six seniors, retirement did not mean slowing down. It meant more time to pursue something they've always wanted to do.
A Golden Age for Online Dating
Single, divorced and widowed older daters are turning to the Internet to meet new people, just like thier children and grandchildren do.
'The Change': Not for me, thanks
Four our writer, being perimenopausal is like being a JV cheerleader -- not quite on the real team yet.
Practicing Patients
When four women -- three doctors and a nurse -- found their roles reversed, they learned valuable lessons on how to better care for patients.
Family Portraits
Women pass down more to their daughters than outward appearance. Your family's medical history can determine risk for disease. To get the complete picture, have you conducted a background check lately?
Knowing Your Knees
Women athletes suffer from serious knee injuries at six to eight times the rate of men. A local trainer says women can work around the risk -- with better training.
The Osteoporosis Epidemic
Two broken bones in 10 months clued me in: I had osteoporosis, like 10 million to 12 million American women and a growing number of men. There's no cure, but exercise, changes in diet, medication and other therapies can help slow bone loss.
The Gift
If I could have spared my mother the darkness of Alzheimer's, I would have. Yet, as her illness changed her, we connected on a deep emotional level.
'Sundowning' Seniors
If your elderly relative becomes agitated or confused in the evenings, but seems just fine in the morning, he or she may be 'sundowning.' Filling their environment with reassuring experiences may help more than medication.