The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

West Bengal: 102-year-old woman sells vegetables to support family

KOLKATA: Age is just a number for Lakshmi Maity, a 102-year-old vegetable seller who, for the past five decades, has never let financial constraints come in the way of her family's basic needs.

The Times of India · Jun 4, 2022

Short-Term Insurance Plans' Good, Bad and Ugly

You'll need a clear-eyed analysis to gauge the value of short-term care insurance plans and if they're right for you.

Kiplinger · May 26, 2022

Mums can often feel 'not good enough' - psychotherapist Anna Mathur asks; 'it's not you, maybe the standards are out of reach?'

And we think she has a point...

GoodToKnow · May 13, 2022

World’s oldest person dies in Japan aged 119

A Japanese woman believed to be the oldest person in the world has died, aged 119.

Evening Standard · Apr 25, 2022

The US maternal mortality rate increased nearly 40% in 2021, was highest for Black women

The US maternal mortality rate is one of the highest among developed countries.

USAFacts · Mar 18, 2022

Internationally renowned experts in endometriosis and consultant gynaecologists answer questions on endometriosis and pregnancy

Doctors answer common questions about endometriosis and pregnancy, fertility, and options for getting pregnant with endometriosis.

GoodToKnow · Aug 24, 2021

Four Questions That Keep Most Pre-Retirees Awake at Night

If you worry about when you can retire, whether you'll have enough money, whether the money you do have will last… Well, you are not alone.

Kiplinger · Oct 29, 2020

Wait and watch on the ‘world’s largest health programme’

Call it ModiCare or NaMoCare, the Budget 2018 announcement on upping the stakes with the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS), is an acceptance of reality, finally, by the government that no poverty alleviation is going to happen till healthcare costs stop dragging people back into impoverishment.

Newslaundry · Feb 2, 2018

Four Tax-Friendly Ways to Pay for Long-Term Care Insurance

Use these four tax-friendly ways to pay for your long-term care premiums.

Kiplinger · Aug 16, 2016