Japan’s ‘cat island’ falls victim to demographic crisis
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There’s no reason for older people to fear smartphones
Brief letters
Do you know the way to shift a tune?
Science Weekly
Revisited: are the world’s oldest people really that old? – podcast
Why worry about your body falling apart at 44 or 60 when you could fret about your brain at 58 or 70?
Emma Beddington
Weekend
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‘He kept going until he couldn’t’: why do boomer men refuse to slow down?
From The Substance to Mormon wives: the year pop culture’s stretched, stuffed faces became too strange to ignore
Ask Philippa
I’m nearly 80 and there’s a void in my life that hobbies can’t fill
Labour needs the will to solve social care crisis
The age of extinction
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Bovine colostrum, raw milk and cortisol face: the biggest wellness trends of 2024
For his 80th birthday, my dad asked for the gift of time. What we gave him will last generations
Ranjana Srivastava
‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’: meet the neuroscientist who believes life could be eternal
November 2024
Every person should have care – not lethal drugs
Letters: Readers who believe the assisted dying bill shouldn’t be passed into law in England and Wales respond to Guardian coverage
World’s oldest known man dies aged 112 in Merseyside
John Tinniswood, born in 1912 and the oldest surviving male second world war veteran, died ‘surrounded by love’
Brief letters
Time to ditch the cliches about older people
A new start after 60
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