Shingles Prevention Week is February 26-March 1. Aging is the main risk factor for getting the shingles virus.

Aging research currently underway at Texas Biomedical Research Institute aims to learn why people age differently and what can be done to give people better outcomes as they get older.

A couple created an online community for those who are transitioning to the role of caretaker for their aging parents.

According to a breakthrough study from Stanford University, our immune system weakens with age. This means it responds slower to age related diseases in the brain like dementia or makes it harder to bounce back from infection. The study says inflammatory hyperdrive plays a role in most age related disease from cancer to cognitive decline. According to the journal that published the study, a particular hormone has been found to rise with aging. The study explored what happens when you inhibit the hormone and stop it from causing this inflammatory activity.