"No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That's for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me." Alexa, a 44-year-old real estate agent, was telling me about ...

Photographer Elinor Carucci chronicles her journey through middle age in her book "Midlife," which is filled with candid self-portraits.

Factors other than a drop in the hormone being promoted as vital for women’s mid-life libido are causing problems with ...

Your period has always been a monthly visitor, but lately, it’s overstaying its welcome with increasing intensity. If you’re experiencing heavier periods in your middle years, you’re not alone. This ...

Good news for coffee lovers: A new study suggests drinking a cup—or several—each day could be linked to long-term health benefits. The study, presented on Monday at the annual meeting of the American ...

Adopting healthy eating habits during middle age boosts the likelihood of healthy aging. That’s according to a new study from the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, which found that a ...

More than a quarter of men and women in early middle age have osteopenia, placing them at risk of developing osteoporosis, the results of a new US study indicate, suggesting that bone health ...

However, older women report less sexual distress than middle-aged women. (HealthDay News) — Older women experience female sexual dysfunction (FSD) at similar rates as midlife women but report less ...

About this research This Pew Research Center report looks at how Americans are thinking about aging and how things are going for adults ages 65 and older.

Finding a gift for an older woman who has everything can be tricky. You want to find something practical and useful while still holding meaning and intention. We sorted our favorite gift recommendatio ...