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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicOld age

Topic: Old age

Adult vaccination can reduce dementia risk. Here’s what emerging research reveals

A recent research published in PLOS Biology highlights the link between vaccination and a reduced risk of age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia.

India is facing a silent elderly care crisis. Budget 2026 must confront it

India has a framework of policies and programmes aimed at supporting older persons, but these are under-utilised and under-resourced relative to the scale of need.

India’s silver economy is booming—app, startups, part-time ‘daughters’, dementia centres

India’s senior population will hit 319 million by 2050, and startups are stepping in where the government falls short. The industry is worth $7 billion—and growing.

There’s a boom in senior citizens climbing the Himalayas. Risk evaluation is the first step

Senior citizens are constantly under pressure to gracefully recede from the public eye and retire. But mountaineers and trekkers in their 60s and 70s are questioning this view.

Best NMN Supplements To Support Optimal NAD+ Levels

Getting older is often a perilous journey, fraught with physical degradation, mental decline, and other alarming issues. In recent years, emerging science has demonstrated...

New book looks at how life changes after Alzheimer’s and how we cope & understood the disease

Published by Penguin Random House India, ‘My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's’ by Sandeep Jauhar will be released on 20 June on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch digital ebooks.

Cookies, chips, frozen meals—ultra-processed foods can cause cognitive decline, dementia

Research increasingly indicates that a poor diet is a risk factor for memory impairments during normal aging.

Will you have dementia in future? Your nightmares can tell: UK study

We still know so little about why we dream, how the brain creates them, and their significance for our health – especially the health of our brains.

Not everyone gets happier as retirement comes. Many just bottom out with age

The so-called U-shaped curve of happiness is reassuring but, unfortunately, probably not true.

Next global economic threat is old age, a challenge no one really knows how to deal with

Societies like Japan are on the front lines of what will eventually be a global challenge. The human species has never before dealt with prolonged and continuous aging.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.