As they've aged, the Boomers have kept redefining previous generations' ideas about the stages of the life cycle. But while the pop bromide may insist that "50 is the new 30." when you're pushing 60, you're no longer middle-aged: you're about to be old.

Among the more curious findings of the therapy-research literature is the failure to show that experienced clinicians get any better results than novices. Maybe the problem is that, too often, experience can make you less aware of the uniqueness of the people in your office.

Betty Friedan has been exploring another vast expanse of our collective social experience, which she believes is every bit as oppressive and blighting of human possibility as the feminine mystique: it's the mix of denial and dread of growing old that she calls "the age mystique."

By examining how older members of our society actually live and looking at what we can learn from people who age successfully, one research study shifted the focus away from the deficits experienced in aging to the factors that permit individuals to function effectively, both physically and mentally, well into old age.

Toward the end of her life, a woman turns back the clock by performing the goofy ballet of her youth.

How to help beleaguered caretakers of elderly parents find meaning and purpose in a challenging task.

For most of us, death is a subject hovering in the shadows of our lives, willfully ignored until it’s suddenly standing rudely before us, the world’s worst party crasher. But the supremely self-willed Sigmund Freud began preparing for death many decades before the actual event, determined not to be cowed by it. For him, anything less would’ve been a blot on psychoanalysis.

A son’s decision to get married is a rite of passage for the entire family.

A stepson reconsiders a long-held resentment.

The joys of being the oldest guy on the team.