Soon after entry into space, physical changes occur within the human body, and these changes become more severe and diverse as flight duration increases. When in space, humans experience early signs of a decrease in blood volume and red cell mass,...

(from Greek, geron: an old man) The scientific study of the processes and consequences of...

Education about ageing and about older people in...

The study of ageing. See educational...

Gerontology is the study of aging in humans. It is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that studies the diseases of the...

Rush-hour straphangers trudged, bleary-eyed, from the I.R.T. station at 125th Street and Broadway in Harlem on the evening of Sept. 1 to find one of New York’s most storied apparitions waiting to shake their hands at the foot of a staircase. “Hi, how are ya?...

The National Institutes of Health is experiencing trouble with vibrations in a new $250 million lab that is forcing it to consider renovating an older lab, according to news reports.NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni acknowledged the problem at the new Biomedical Research Center in Baltimore...

Julie Winnifred Bertrand, the world's oldest woman at 115, died in her sleep in a Montreal nursing home, according to Canadian media reports Friday.Bertrand, born Sept. 16, 1891, in the Quebec town of Coaticook, passed away in her sleep early Thursday at the nursing home...

Moses Hardy, believed to be the second-oldest man in the world and the last black U.S. veteran of World War I, has died at age 113, family members said Friday.Evelyn Davis, 68, one of Hardy's eight children, said her father died Thursday at a nursing...

A comparison of two articles in the field of Financial Gerontology.