Study based on game that quantified concerns of adult children and seniors about driving.

There's being up and about...and there's being UP and ABOUT.

The CEO of the International Council on Active Aging summed up the game's popularity with one word, "explosion."

Study of 85-year-olds indicates as little as 4 hours per week extends life expectancy.

Study: each point decrease in a five-point scale measuring frequency of social activity was associated with about 33 per cent faster rate of decline in motor function.

I am exhausted thinking about my later years. So many studies -- it makes you breathless -- show a correlation between reduced incidence of dementia and certain behaviors. Do people who remain sharp choose these activities? Or do these activities help people remain sharp? Oops, sorry. Nobody really knows.

But as we anticipate the future, and newspapers capitalize on their and our impossible-to-calm fear of dementia, prepare to hustle. >>> Read more . . .

Wii Fitness: They love it in Fort Myers

By 2013, phone-based navigation will be the dominant form of turn-by-turn navigation -- today more than one-third of North American consumers own or use some form of navigation services. So says a new Forrester Research analysis. >>> Read more . . .

Benefits of mind exercises as useful, though underused, for those with cognitive impairments.

Surfing around the websites that help with defining and guiding those in search of independent living, assisted living, nursing home and the combination of these known as a CCRC (continuing care retirement communities), you can spend time on guidance sites like Gilbert Guide, RetirementHomes.com, the unfortunately-named APlace for Mom, and the websites of housing providers, both non-profit and for profit like Ecumen, Sunrise, and Senior Living Communities.  >>> Read more . . .