Robin Marantz Henig's Blog

It turns out that when you pose for photos with a wide smile, you're actually making yourself look older. You could have fooled me—and the research subjects, too.

After a cancer diagnosis, a woman chooses a year on the road with her son and his wife, rather than the difficult death she'd just been through with her husband.

Is romantic love a kind of addiction? And if it is, do other kinds of love -- such as the kind parents and grandparents feel -- make the same imprint on the human brain?

With the loss of the spontaneous, friendly telephone call -- which Slate says died in 2007 -- comes another loss: feeling connected to the world at large.

Finding out by chance George Soros' interest in end-of-life decision-making and why it's important.

Two newspaper articles appeared last week about late-life transformations that showed that no matter how old you get, you might still be in for more than your share of surprises.

My husband and I drew up our living wills recently -- just part of Life in the Sixties, the realization that it behooves us to finally get our house in order.

Ever wonder how it feels to be really, really old? This empathy suit might help you out.

The new California aid-in-dying law, like similar laws in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Vermont, leaves out a wide range of people who might want to be covered: those with progressive debilitating diseases that don't have an obvious 6-months-to-live prognosis, and people with dementia, the fastest-growing health threat in the U.S. There may be no good way around this.

If the trend is real that grandparents are moving cross-country to help their Millennial children raise the grandkids, there might be a biological explanation for it. Anthropologists call it the Grandmother Effect.