aging

Ancient rites bend to an aging, shrinking population, but how much longer can local traditions hold out?

The oldest woman in Bolivia, and perhaps the world, turned 118 on Friday, remaining lucid and in good health, authorities in the South American country said. Julia Flores was born in 1900 in a Quechua family in the mining region of Potosi in the country's ...

Once deemed so important it served as a form of currency, Japanese rice has fallen out of favor with younger, westernized consumers, a shift that has left aging farmers struggling for survival. Rice consumption has nearly halved over the past 50 years. As the older ...

Spain is expected to push Japan to second place in global life expectancy rankings by 2040, estimates by a U.S. research institute show. Spain's Mediterranean lifestyle is key to the change, according to the study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and ...

The country's growing ranks of dementia sufferers are sitting on a mountain of frozen assets, creating personal dilemmas for loved ones fretting over how to handle that money and a drag on the nation's economic prospects as the vast pool of wealth lays idle. The ...

When Honda Motor Co. launched the latest version of its N-Box a year ago, it promoted features on the pint-sized minicar such as error-detecting pedals, automatic emergency braking and moveable seats, part of a push to market the vehicle to young families. But a drastically ...

Company-run programs to help employees get a head start on preparing for retirement are flourishing in Japan as the country's average life expectancy continues to grow. The government is also getting on board, supporting companies that promote seminars that prompt employees to examine whether they ...

In a sparkling white cap and oversized sunglasses, 55-year-old retiree Zhang Yongli and dozens of neighbors liven up a Shanghai park by doing the jitterbug, part of a public dance craze that has become China's national pastime. Every day, an estimated more than 100 million ...

The ingredients in this experimental brain treatment may be better known to enhance cooking, not cognition. Chinese scientists have borrowed three ingredients from its traditional medicine practice — a 3,000-year-old approach that aims to regulate the flow of energy in the body — and used ...