Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The notorious baby boomers—the largest age cohort in history�

Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and

A guide for planning and approaching old age and the problems that can occur as each person gets older.

Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled—a p