On the streets of Bengaluru, a growing number of people turning to gig-work are men and women in their fifties, sixties and beyond who cannot afford to stop working.
The DNA Longevo Project at the University of São Paulo's Human Genome Research Centre has already enrolled over 160 centenarians, including roughly 20 validated supercentenarians.
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 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 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.
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.
Getting older is often a perilous journey, fraught with physical degradation, mental decline, and other alarming issues. In recent years, emerging science has demonstrated...
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.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
Sakshi: Thank you for the in-depth article. Your writing highlights a major problem with sensitivity and empathy.
We celebrate youth and talk endlessly about start-ups, Viksit Bharat, and being Vishwagurus (whatever that means), while leaving so many behind. To experience this level of financial insecurity after a lifetime of working is a damning testament to the failure of our politics.
Sakshi: Thank you for the in-depth article. Your writing highlights a major problem with sensitivity and empathy.
We celebrate youth and talk endlessly about start-ups, Viksit Bharat, and being Vishwagurus (whatever that means), while leaving so many behind. To experience this level of financial insecurity after a lifetime of working is a damning testament to the failure of our politics.