‘Africa’ Review: Aging and Its Discontents
In Oren Gerner’s semifictional family portrait, a father grapples with retirement, poor health, and a growing sense of obsolescence. Source link
Looking Straight into the Struggles of Aging
In two Paris theatrical productions, the physical decline that occurs at the end of a long life has no sugar coating. Source link
How Exercise Can Support the Aging Brain
Studies show that rodent exercise also slows or stops aging-related declines in animals’ brains. strengthening special cells called microglia. Until recently, little understood, microglial cells are now known to be the brain’s resident immune cells and hall monitors. They monitor for signs of declining neuronal health, and when declining cells are detected, they release neurochemicals …
‘Love Is Love’ Review: Aging Too Thin
One of the greatest comforts in life is the reassurance that misery can be interesting. Satisfaction doesn’t necessarily provide the audience (or viewers) with great enjoyment of gossip, drama, or insight, and the characters in Eleanor Coppola’s idle drama “Love Is Love Is Love” mostly seem like contented, happy people. The film is a collection …
Calculating the Cost of Aging
Researchers are studying how American adults will need care as they age and for how long. Source link
September 11 Children Are Aging
Three middle-class books explore prejudice and discrimination against Muslim American youth in the devastating aftermath of the terrorist attack. Source link
Jan Lisiecki, Piano Doogie Howser, Aging with Chopin
What kind of piano did you use? I couldn’t choose my piano, but I was lucky enough to choose Daniel Brech, who lives in western Germany, as my piano technician. I’ve worked with him a few times and he and I have the same vision of how a piano should sound. We bonded when we …
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2 Sinkholes a Week Signals Weaknesses in NYC’s Aging
According to Terry West, an emeritus professor of engineering geology at Purdue University, urban sinkholes usually begin when the sand and gravel under the pavement erodes due to an underground seepage. As the soil crumbles, a chasm grows under the road until the pavement collapses. Professor West said the process often takes years, but severe …
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