According to the Census Bureau’s Public Information Office the baby boomer generation was born between 1946 and 1964, and is now turning 60 years old. To this baby boomers life still holds plenty of promise of “forever young”. It is estimated that in the USA there are 78.2 million of baby boomers, including presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton. This is a big percentage of the total US population of 298 million. On a daily basis, the number of people turning 60 each day in 2006 is 7,918 according to government census office projections.

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Elderly drivers may be the butt of jokes and a source of anxiety to their children, but new research shows that the very act of driving on that short trip to the grocery store may help keep them out of a nursing home.
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In her first book of new essays in three decades, writer and film director Nora Ephron tackles the comic indignities of growing older and women’s attempts to stop the aging process in “I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman” (Knopf, 137 pp., $20).

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Watch your diet. Get plenty of exercise. Quit smoking. These are just some of the things you can do to stay healthy as you age.

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Urinary incontinence occurs when urine leaks from your bladder, or you cannot control your urge to urinate. It occurs more frequently in women than in men, often in older women and after pregnancy.

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Exercise may slow age’s impact on brain function, helping maintain whip-smart cognitive ability well into the senior years and preventing dementia-like illness, a new review of the data shows.

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Natural changes with age

Regardless of how long you live, time takes a toll on the organs and systems in your body. How and when this occurs is unique to you. Some typical changes to expect as you age include:

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New research is providing insight into how stress can shrink your brain cells and prematurely age your immune system. Essentially, the researchers say, stress can addle your mind and make you older. But there’s good news too: Exercise can make a huge difference. And, in the case of the brain at least, time might heal the wounds caused by stress.

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Women who are in their forties hate their bodies, many are developing eating disorders because of this and a significant number have had cosmetic surgery, according to a survey of 2,000 women carried out in the UK by Top Sante.

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