Aging and the Elderly

Last Will and Embezzlement

Mayor Bloomberg Thinks Skype is Cool -- And Not Just for Young People!

Mayor Mike Bloomberg toured one of the city's senior centers in Flushing, Queens yesterday as part of a press event to promote his administration's efforts in launching eight new "innovative" senior centers throughout New York City. Innovation, in this case, means Skype! With a tail of reporters ... More >>

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Break out the leisure suits and lamé

Kevin Amato, Bronx Photographer, On His Show "F*ck the Golden Years"

During Armory Arts Week, Casa De Costa gallery in the Financial District is kicking off Bronx based photographer Kevin Amato's show "F*ck the Golden Years" with an opening reception this evening. We caught up with Amato last month, a friend and sometime collaborator on stories we've reported togethe ... More >>

City Unveils First-Ever LGBT Senior Center

Roger Mácon, a 64-year-old Jamaica, Queens resident, has been out of the closet for many years. But he didn't realize there were many other seniors in the city like himself that are openly gay and lesbian, too -- until he found a network of LGBT seniors through an organization called Services and ... More >>

Fish Might Keep Your Brain Working Swimmingly: Study

Chicken of the sea might beef up your brain: Researchers have found that diets high in fish and vegetables might prevent your gray matter from shrinking with age. As detailed in December's Neurology, these foods -- high in omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins D,C,E, and B -- have been linked to healthy ... More >>

Happy People Look Younger

Ageless, really. Sexless, too.​According to new scientific research, "happy faces" are the hardest to read for an accurate age estimate, reports MSNBC. Not only can smiles and laughs cover up (or camouflage) age wrinkles with happiness-wrinkles, smiling faces have "a halo effect," which means ... More >>

Drinking Is Good for Old People

​Here's some happy news: If you manage to make it to the ripe old age of 75 -- and chances are good for that these days if you stay out of traffic and away from the slippery edges of tall buildings and don't play with guns and such -- you will be perfectly justified in, even obligated to, rewa ... More >>

Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! Champ, Took Questions on Reddit as "WatsonsBitch"

​"I am a 74-time Jeopardy! champion, Ken Jennings. I will not be answering in the form of a question," someone wrote in the IAmA section of social news website and discussion board Reddit yesterday afternoon under the username WatsonsBitch. It turns out, via proof on his blog, that it was inde ... More >>

How Often Does the Oldest Person in the World Die?

Eunice Sanborn, R.I.P.​The oldest person in the world when today started was Eunice Sanborn at 114 years and 195 days, but BBC News is reporting, via the Daily Progress newspaper in Jacksonville, Texas, that she passed away this morning, yielding her title to Besse Cooper of Georgia, age 114 y ... More >>

Tokyo Story

Eunice Sanborn, R.I.P.​The oldest person in the world when today started was Eunice Sanborn at 114 years and 195 days, but BBC News is reporting, via the Daily Progress newspaper in Jacksonville, Texas, that she passed away this morning, yielding her title to Besse Cooper of Georgia, age 114 y ... More >>

Bitter Old People Get their Kicks Reading Bad Things About Whippersnappers

​People over 50 prefer reading negative news about young people, though they are indifferent when the news is about people their own age, according to a new study. So, go call your twisted parents and grandparents, and tell them the plight of the youngs is no laughing matter!

New York City Likes Old People After All

​New York City is hoping to improve the lives of elderly residents by doing things like increasing street crossing times at major intersections by four seconds (do this at Delancey Street, please!), operating school buses for grocery store runs, and just making NYC a kinder, gentler place, th ... More >>

Playground for Elderly May Open on Upper East Side

​There must really be something to the expression "second childhood." Apparently, the Parks Department might set aside a section of the Upper East Side's John Jay Park especially for seniors. Sounds crazy fun! Also, this seems like pretty indisputable proof that New York City does love old peo ... More >>

Cutest Grandparents and Possibly Oldest Bloggers Ever Are Still Smitten after 70 Years (Video!)

​Is your wife as sweet as that sundae? "Sweeter than that," Harry Cooper, 98, told the Today Show camera this morning as he shared an ice cream sundae with his wife of 72 years, Barbara, 93. (Video after the jump, if you missed it.) The couple, Poppop and Cutie to those close to them, grin at ... More >>

Sexting's New Extreme: Young People Can't Stop with the Mid-CoitiuSMS

​The "Kids" these days! They're so easily distracted. Even, apparently, from sex. Because some of them are picking up their phone and texting while having it.

ON THE MOVE

Jules de Balincourt is coming up

Alkaline Trio

Jules de Balincourt is coming up

CLASSICAL MASS

Sonatas are a young person's game

Holocaust Survivors Face Eviction in Four Seasons Lodge

Sonatas are a young person's game

A Word From the Les Desirs Landlord

A week ago, a story emerged that Les Desirs Patisserie, the 47-year-old Chelsea bakery beloved by neighborhood seniors, was about to be closed by its landlords and replaced by a branch of Sullivan Street Bakery. A petition to save the bakery collected some 700 signatures. But now the landlord is wei ... More >>

Forty-Year-Old Battles Gay Senior Citizens Group

I just got a letter from a man who's been involved in senior citizens groups (including SAGE of South Florida), even though he's not even close to SAGE age. He simply likes to be around older gays and figures that shouldn't be a problem. But the man claims New York's branch of SAGE told him that the ... More >>

AGELESS BEAUTY

A gem from the SXSW Film Fest

Paterson and Unions Agree on Plan; Say it Will Cut Jobs, Benefits, Save $440M

Governor Paterson has announced an agreement with the state employees' unions, whom he has been threatening with massive layoffs for months, that will save the state some money and save the unions some jobs and benefits they might otherwise have lost to forced budget cuts. Per the announcement, th ... More >>

Queens Torah Thief Sentenced to 1 Year

This just in: A man is going to jail for a year for stealing Torahs. Twenty-four-year old Eric Giraldo was a janitor at The Jewish Center at Kew Gardens Hills, a synagogue in Queens, when he got the idea that he could make some money by stealing the congregation's Torahs and selling them on the blac ... More >>

Post Helps Readers Find Bad Jobs

"I'd be a fool to argue that jobs are plentiful these days," says Tory Johnson at the New York Post, but she does know 20 companies who are hiring. The jobs in the first several paragraphs -- offered by small tech-intense companies like etsy.com who have not yet run through their venture capital -- ... More >>

RETIRE HERE

Night of a thousand grannies

Why Do We Hate Old People?

In any truly civilized culture, older people are greeted with respect as pillars of wisdom to turn to for advice and comfort. But in America, old folk are generally discarded in favor of hot young blondes (except for Barbara Walters). The elderly tend to become invisible, greeted with a sort of pa ... More >>

Chairman Diaz Looks at Canada Drugs for Seniors

Ruben Diaz has sent a note asking state senate colleagues to join the committee on aging, of which he is now chairman. After assuring the senators that he knew their concern for the elderly, and that they were "committed to ending their relegation to a twilight of quiet despair," Diaz said he intend ... More >>

How the 'Gang of Three' Ties Up Senate Dems

Ruben Diaz has sent a note asking state senate colleagues to join the committee on aging, of which he is now chairman. After assuring the senators that he knew their concern for the elderly, and that they were "committed to ending their relegation to a twilight of quiet despair," Diaz said he intend ... More >>

HOT POTATO

Sibyl Kempson stages Potatoes of August

More Holiday Gloom from College Press Releases

Sibyl Kempson stages Potatoes of August

BREAKING BARRIERS

A discussion on Harvey Milk’s battle

Scam Tip of the Week: Senior Citizen Discounts

A discussion on Harvey Milk’s battle

Grannies and Gramps to City: Show Us the Senior Center Money

A discussion on Harvey Milk’s battle

A Brooklyn Assemblyman's Earmarks Are Political Surrealism

A local pol gets singed for his attempt at pork for Aesthetic Realism

Critics Say Frozen Meals-on-Wheels Are in Poor Taste

A local pol gets singed for his attempt at pork for Aesthetic Realism

Dead Men Win No Lawsuits

Why ambulance-chasing attorneys won't go near your grandpa's demise

Our Man Sietsema: 'As Smoky as a Fireman's Helmet'

Why ambulance-chasing attorneys won't go near your grandpa's demise

Knockin' Vintage Boots

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

'Driving Lessons'

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

Transit Talks: Death Un-Benefit

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

Astoria Scrap: Cars v. Grandma

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

Single, Female—And Over 40

Women of a certain, sexy age are at their erotic peak

Paper Clips

Women of a certain, sexy age are at their erotic peak

A New Voting Age for Women: 26

Women of a certain, sexy age are at their erotic peak

Deals on Wheels

Bronx Democratic hacks learn to love frozen food for their frail senior citizens

Rhythm Method

Battling brain rot, Oedipus dances with meat and ideas

Four-Room Co-Op in Circa 1900s Walk-Up

Battling brain rot, Oedipus dances with meat and ideas

Features

Battling brain rot, Oedipus dances with meat and ideas