Expanding the conversation about aging

Many issues facing older adults intersect with other social inequalities, but experts often fail to keep…

Five high schoolers awarded MIT OMEGA scholarships for intergenerational efforts

The MIT AgeLab awards annual scholarships to high school students who lead or develop intergenerational programs…

Making life friendlier with personal robots

“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says…

Students imagine better products, services, and infrastructure for an aging society

A pop-up hearing aid exposition called HearWeAre. A travel agency that matches older and younger travelers…

Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…