Every July 22, World Brain Day encourages us to think more broadly about what it means to protect our brains. While Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia often dominate [...]

David Skoczulek was about 20 years old, a brand-new EMT transporting an older gentleman living with brain change, when the man began grabbing at him, confused and increasingly agitated. Skoczulek [...]

About 10 years ago, Robert Espinoza had a heart attack. In the months that followed, with his cognitive sharpness and physical capacity diminished, he needed a worker to come into [...]

When Sarah Cheney was a child, she noticed something in her grandmother’s eyes every time the family packed up to leave. Her grandmother lived on a family farm six hours [...]

Peter Kaldes will turn 50 in two months, and he is not interested in pretending otherwise. He believes the reluctance to claim our own age holds the whole conversation back, [...]

Francis LeGasse watched two grandfathers move through the aging experience in very different ways, and neither one sat right with him. His paternal grandfather lived with brain change that the [...]

There’s a question buried inside all the noise about longevity, and Dr. Kelly Tremblay thinks it’s the only one that really counts. It doesn’t ask how long we can live, [...]

George Kutnerian once stood in front of a conference audience, put a photo of one of his homes on the screen, and asked everyone to find the sign identifying what kind [...]

On Saturday mornings when Leslie Eber was growing up, she rode along with her father on his hospital rounds. He was an oral surgeon, and what stayed with her was [...]

When an old institutional home was demolished, family members of residents told Eloy van Hal they would miss it. He could not understand the nostalgia. He was fed up with [...]