The Gross Domestic Product doesn’t count volunteer work at all, and that includes unpaid care-giving for a sick loved one. But with such high costs for elderly home care, there’s often no alternative, as Marketplace’s Chris Farrell says.

The tech giant aims to study the biology behind the process of aging.

Sorting out your financial relationship with your parents can be more crucial than you think.

Sweden has taken giant steps when it comes to heath care. With one of the oldest populations and highest life expectancies in the world, the Scandinavian nation is using new medical technology to care for its aging citizens.

Appearing to look better than others in your age group could be seen as a blessing or a very expensive curse.

It seems like there's a new warning every week about our aging population and what it means for government entitlement programs, among other things. Marketplace's Chris Farrell is here to separate fact from fiction.

Anti-aging creams are a growing share of the cosmetics market, but the FDA warns that if companies claim pharmaceutical benefits from their products, the FDA will review them as drugs.

More long-term marriages are breaking up and a wine habit may benefit older women's bones.

Housing an Aging Population: Are We Prepared?

A substantial fraction of people die with virtually no financial assets — 46.1 percent with less than $10,000.