http://www.mail.com/subjects/92496-aging.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/92496-aging.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081306-amtrak-unveils-locomotives-to-replace-aging-fleet.html NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and more energy efficiency. On a broader scale, the new engines displayed Monday could well be viewed as emblematic of the impr... Tue, 14 May 2013 01:13:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2081306-amtrak-unveils-locomotives-to-replace-aging-fleet.html 2013-05-14T01:13:15Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2040968-long-term-care-aging-us-me-poll.html WASHINGTON (AP) — We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging and found two-thirds say they've done little to no planning. In fact, 3 in 10 would rathe... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:49:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2040968-long-term-care-aging-us-me-poll.html 2013-04-24T17:49:44Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1933812-your-chances-dying-2023-test-offers-clue.html CHICAGO (AP) — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room. That's according to a "mortality index" developed by San Francisco researchers for people older than 50. The test scores may satisfy people's morbid curiosity, ... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:21:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1933812-your-chances-dying-2023-test-offers-clue.html 2013-03-06T15:21:16Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1884332-pope-lifetime-jobs-arent-life.html The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change. There may be more behind the story of why Pope Benedict... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1884332-pope-lifetime-jobs-arent-life.html 2013-02-11T22:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1881284-to-slow-hospital-readmission-epidemic.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door that for years has seemed impossible to slow. Now Medicare has begun punishing hospitals with hefty fines if they have too many readmissions, and a top official says signs of improvement are ... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1881284-to-slow-hospital-readmission-epidemic.html 2013-02-10T17:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1876928-assisted-suicide-legal-agenda.html HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for allowing doctors to prescribe mentally competent, dying individuals with the medications needed to end their own lives. The large number of baby boomers facing end-of-life issues themselves h... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1876928-assisted-suicide-legal-agenda.html 2013-02-08T18:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1849236-aging-america-elder-abuse-use-shelters-up.html MASON, Ohio (AP) — She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears. The woman, in her 70s, is trying to explain how she wound up in a shelter that could well be where she spends the rest of her life. While the woman was living with a close family member, official... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1849236-aging-america-elder-abuse-use-shelters-up.html 2013-01-27T14:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842426-changing-family-dynamic-lead-to-tax-relief.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — might find some relief come tax time. The bottom line is, who's a dependent? Your kindergarten-age son, your adult daughter, her grandparents, or maybe an elderly uncle or aunt? "There's a cha... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842426-changing-family-dynamic-lead-to-tax-relief.html 2013-01-24T07:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1783698-help-hand-when-elderly-relatives-health-fails.html WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was living alone in New York and whose health was beginning to decline. Schwartz's dilemma was similar to that faced by more and more Americans as the population spreads out, people live ... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1783698-help-hand-when-elderly-relatives-health-fails.html 2012-12-22T18:51:00Z