My mother had a wonderful grasp of old-age wisdom that had served, for eons, as common-sense solutions for many of life’s questions. It was a predictable routine, drilling me and my siblings with the ...

While age does not factor explicitly in the Berlin Model, Baltes and colleagues’ research suggests that wisdom rises steadily from age 13 to 25 and then remains relatively stable through to age ...

The Sept. 22 Ideas section dealing with aging was absolutely terrific (“The Wisdom Issue”). I am 94, close to 95, and so many of the pieces resonated with me.

Tapping on a computer keyboard, the 27-year-old physician enters its properties in a database that eventually will contain more than 100,000 such traditional remedies -- the collective wisdom of ...

Old age isn’t what the books promised it would be. Literature is littered with old people for whom the years have brought some combination of wisdom, serenity, authority and power — King Lear ...

The old woman was an archetype of wisdom. Out of her long hair grows wild ideas; her body represents fertility and the gestation of wisdom; her legs are chicken legs, and she carries her house ...