The first nursing postdoc at Stanford, Nancy Dudley, brings a passion for the care of the severely ill to her palliative care research.
A new study finds tai chi balance training can be more effective than conventional exercise approaches for reducing falls in older adults with a high risk for falling.
With half of all cases of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias going undiagnosed, researchers develop app to help in early screening
Older people are more susceptible to infection, cancer, and autoimmunity than younger people. This may be the result of our immune cells' receiving increasingly random marching orders as we age.
A new study led by the late Ben Barres suggests that rogue astrocytes may be involved in memory loss in otherwise healthy older brains.
Stanford's Ruth O'Hara discusses research on worrying and its impact on cognition, memory and effective disorders in older adults.
A Stanford and VA team investigated how health care systems affect care given at the end of life.
Worrying actually helps alleviate the negative effects on memory and cognitive processing caused by depression and anxiety in older adults, according to a new study …
It's not every day that early-stage research at Stanford's School of Medicine generates its own New Yorker cartoon. But a few years ago, news of a …
Ten years ago, when the Stanford Center on Longevity was brand new, people didn’t really talk about “longevity.” Instead, the term of art was “aging,” …
Putting patients with dementia into the hospital, unless absolutely necessary, can do more harm than good, according to an editorial recently published in the Journal …
When elderly people fall, a hip fracture is a common and serious result. It is typically treated with surgery, but physicians need a better way …
Cuteness is in the eye of the beholder, I realize. But I think this roundworm is pretty adorable. And although they're not killifish, laboratory roundworms also …
My 94-year-old grandmother has a smartphone. I know she enjoys seeing photos of my son (note to self: send a few today), but she's had …
Muscles healing after injury, during normal aging or in response to diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy often develop excess connective tissue that inhibits the ability …
By 2050, nearly one-quarter (link to .pdf) of the world’s population will be over 60 years of age, straining health-care resources. To address this challenge, the Stanford …
