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Background: Activities in daily living (ADLs) disability triggered by aging population and chronic diseases in the middle-aged and older adults has become a major public health challenge.

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Life as a medieval slave was harsh, unforgiving, and often invisible in the grand narratives of history. In this video, we ...

His title is somewhat misleading, for the last two chapters take us beyond the strict limit of the geography of the Middle Ages and introduce the great Age of Discovery. The author shows how ...

everyday habits can also contribute to a less-than-ideal aging process. And some of the habits you probably follow every day or every week are actually getting in the way of healthy aging and a long ...

It invites us to reconsider how physical difference was perceived, accommodated, and integrated into everyday life. As we dig into the past, it’s easy to expect stories of cruelty and neglect.

On a sunny morning in a small courtyard at Walt Whitman Middle School in Virginia ... not only companionship from the animals but some life skills as well. “We got super lucky that egg prices ...

Citizens of Athens benefited from a rich culture and a fascinating daily life. One of the main ... important aspect of Athenian social life, for which many things have been written and said across the ...

Valeria Golino plays celebrated Italian author Goliarda Sapienza, but it's Matilda de Angelis, as her livewire prison pal, who gives this rather obscure story what spark of life it has.

Food, health, money, jobs, and bills, now add in taking care of kids and parents, and you’re stuck in the middle. Known as the sandwich generation, they are adults often in their 40s and 50s ...

Five of them are by Dr. Baker, and their scope is well indicated by the titles—“A Biologist's View of Everyday Life”: “Social Life in Animals”: “The Determination of Sex”: “The ...