I admit it. I was happy. I’m getting sort of old, even outright creaky, but life was sweet. There was a sameness of days I just loved. Every morning Sally Rae started the coffee pot next to our bed.

Nearly half of Americans aged 60 and older can't afford their daily needs, the National Council on Aging estimates. Over 3,800 older Americans reached out to Business Insider to share their financial ...

You can change your life in any decade. Just ask Lyn Slater, 70. A decade ago, the former professor of social work started chronicling her fashion choices on a blog called “Accidental Icon.” She soon ...

As with public art installation or sculpture or mural, ”Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity” invites conversation. “Old Enough,” 20 essays and photographic portraits, was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. At the age of 61, she went from a university ...

Peggy Noonan writes that “the key to surviving the 21st century will be religious faith—you won’t get through it without it” (“Signposts on the Wisdom Trail,” Declarations, Jan. 4). Maybe a future ...

Steve Reeves takes photographs of older people in his community. He's learned lessons from them, particularly his 100-year-old friend Michael Hopkins. Reeves shared these bits of wisdom with BI, ...