Living longer, staying healthy

Living longer, staying well: promoting good health for older women.

Women are living longer than ever. A woman who is 65 today can, on average, expect to live another 19 years to age 84. Despite recognition of the essential role preventive care and healthy habits play in these later years, older women and their physicians often miss opportunities to promote good health. Medicare, which provides basic health insurance coverage for those 65 and older, does includ...

Living Longer! Living Happier?

Staying Alive Longer: Autonomous Robot Recharging Put to the Test

Autonomous mobile robots are being developed for numerous applications where long-term capabilities would be beneficial. However, most mobile robots have onboard power supplies in the form of batteries that last for a finite amount of time, in which case the robot becomes reliant on human intervention for extended usage. To achieve true long-term autonomy, the robot must be selfsustaining in it...

The cost of living longer

Sexual reproduction and the mixing of alleles that it entails boosts diversity, but also poses a dilemma for individual organisms. given that each organism has ultimately limited resources for reproduction, maintenance and immunity, the choice between fertility and long-term survival is one between two opposite poles of selection that operate across many animal and plant species. the balance be...

Staying Healthy Naturally in the Third World