The writer Meredith Maran found at age 60 that the future she envisioned for her life turned out to be a dream, not a plan. Bit by bit, she reconstructed her broken existence, a story of resilience she chronicles in her new book, The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention.

When he first mixed together a series of sound effects into an "audio movie," David Tobin wasn't intending to create a tool to help seniors and their caregivers.

92-year old Emil Meisel is outraged. He, his wife of 66 years, and all the other senior citizens who reside in an apartment building in Los Angeles recently learned they're being evicted. A new owner plans a $50 million renovation--and needs everyone out to complete it.

I share this letter in the spirit of helping us all understand the immeasurable emotions we face as we confront loss and aging... from the perspective of one articulate woman whom I'm honored to have as a friend.

The legendary dancer Carmen de Lavallade embodies the word gracefully. She's 85, which seems unfathomable as she practically glides into the room with the spectacular posture and gleaming skin of someone far younger. Is her endurance attributable to good genes, a lifetime of movement, of adulation and success, of an enduring love with a magnificent husband of sixty years, Geoffrey Holder?

Students of gerontology live and play among the retirees at a community in Hollywood as part of a unique intergenerational program that's been around for 30 years.

You might think the last subject on the mind of a twenty-year old college student would be the challenges facing older women in society. Not so those enrolled in Caroline Cicero's class at USC, Gero 435: Women and Aging. The reasons young people study gerontology are as varied as people themselves

Ashton Applewhite is to the fight against ageism what Betty Friedan was to feminism: A passionate advocate for ending what she calls our last socially acceptable form of discrimination.

Even as a child, Dr. Mosqueda said, she was drawn to older people. She found them engaging, and she was fascinated by the neurology of aging.

You don't have to be a yogi, or even interested in the practice at all, to be inspired by the story of Marlene Weiss.

For the last 25 years, she's taught yoga at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. She didn't start practicing yoga, much less teaching it, until the second half of her life, after raising two children.