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Bob Crowley, a 57-year-old school teacher from Portland, Maine bested rivals half his age to win $1,000,000 in this year's season of CBS's Survivor. Here is Bob on CBS's Early Show explaining how his aged proved an asset for the competition. Congrats, Bob!
The legendary 1950's "pin-up" model Bettie Page died yesterday at the age of 85. As the New York Times obituary explains, Page defied the typical expectations of women in her day--and ended even up in the cross hairs of a United States senate investigation on "pornography." After dropping out of…
Influenza infection rates usually peak around February in the United States, so now is an important time to look at some facts about the disease. Influenza, commonly known as "the flu," is a serious and highly contagious virus that kills more Americans every year than all other vaccine-preventable…
Amid all the talk about the economic crisis during the holidays this year, we can't forget about the other problem that's brooding in the back of our mind during the holiday season: how we're going to survive planning the family party madness.
Our favorite Nanny, Fran Drescher, has been busy lately - she just got back from visiting Europe as the United States' envoy for women's health issues.
A little Friday fun from Garry Lee Wright
As Monday, December 1st was World AIDS Day, folks have been blogging all week in efforts to raise AIDS awareness. So we say - better late than never!
This is crazy. The New York Times blog Well had a post up yesterday about a compelling new study on aging showing that, on average, older people feel about 13 years younger than they really are. Talk about "young at heart"!
Today, six entrepreneurs over age 60 found out that they are 2008 Purpose Prize Winners! One invented a $28 machine to help rural African villagers turn their small peanut farm into a cash crop, another rallied hundreds of volunteers to help Iraqi refugees start new lives in their city, and a third…
This short piece was produced for AARP-TV's "My Generation." It won a a 2008 TIVA-DC Peer Gold for directing (non fiction, under thirty minutes). Enjoy