Topic
Aging
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Older Women are the Future Economy
By Tracy Thomas
Alessandra Malito, Older Women will Soon Rule the World, MIT Professor SaysIn his new book, “The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market,” (published by PublicAffairs) Joseph Coughlin, founder…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Happiness and the Oldest-Old
By rmorgan
2017 has been a bit of a wild ride, and I thought it would be good to end the year on a happy news item. So, check out this article…
The Right Coast
Why a drug for aging would challenge Washington
As the research moves forward, however, it is raising a series of new questions that both medicine and regulators will need to confront. And the most complex questions arise around…
The Right Coast
Why a drug for aging would challenge Washington
As the research moves forward, however, it is raising a series of new questions that both medicine and regulators will need to confront. And the most complex questions arise around…
Elder Law Prof Blog
If You Made a List, What Would You Do Differently When You are Older?
By rmorgan
I was reading the article, Things I’ll Do Differently When I’m Old, in the New York Times. The author writes about a do and not do list. What is this…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Things I’ll Do Differently When I’m Old
The unstoppable, unmerciful grinding of time wears perpetually on our temporally-limited bodies. While the mind progresses and learns from the mistakes that only age can teach, the physical structure that…
Elder Law Prof Blog
As The Oldest Generation Ages in Japan . . .
A haunting story and visual images of growing old alone in Japan, from the New York Times, including this excerpt:To many residents in Mrs. Ito’s complex, the deaths were the…
Elder Law Prof Blog
New Publication: Old & Sick in America
Dr. Muriel Gillick, a Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Program in Aging at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute had a new book.…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Embrace Aging
By rmorgan
Do you consider yourself to be old? Well, if you are over 37, statistically you are old, according to an article in the New York Times, Feeling Older? Here’s How…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Dropping “Anti-Aging” From Vocabulary
By rmorgan
I'm sure all of us have seen ads about fighting aging, or a product that is promoted as "anti-aging." I always am puzzled; it seems that we are in a battle…