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Apparently scientists in Montréal no longer need to put rats in a maze to conduct experiments, because they have shopping malls. Bonnie Swaine and Eva Kehayia, researchers at the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal (CRIR), turned the Alexis Nihon Plaza shopping center into a "living laboratory." According to the Montreal Gazette, "Kehayia and Swaine note that 17 per cent of Quebecers deal with some kind of physical handicap (48 per cent of those over age 65), so public spaces need to be better designed to accommodate them." What do these accommodations entail? Well, the researchers will be testing: More »
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Watch out, teenagers! New market research shows baby boomers know how to use smartphones just like you do. What will they learn next? More »
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A writer for the Daily News somehow convinced his 82-year-old Grandmother to agree to go skydiving — with cameras along to document the whole thing. After she made her decent from the sky, she had a few words: "Life gets better and better, and even when you think it can't get any better, it gets better!" More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827484&view=rss&microfeed=true A new study suggests that as people get older, they put on weight in an unexpected place: their pelvic bones. Scientists found that these bones widen with time in both men and women, resulting in extra inches on their frames even if they don't put on fat. Says study author Dr. Laurence Dahners, "We found older people really are wider, almost 8 to 9 percent wider." More »
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The answer, as found in a new study, is actually pretty obvious. More »
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Ola Mae Agee was convicted of selling crack cocaine to an undercover cop last week. The 87-year-old had set up a drug business from her home in Pensacola, Florida. More »
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Hef also says that fake breasts are not going out of style: "If you come up lacking in that department, one understands that that's what cosmetic surgery exists for." More »
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Obviously, blowing up at people can be bad for your social life. But psychologists also say keeping your emotions bottled up will make people dislike you. What to do? More »
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A week ago, Dan Savage posted a now-invisible (but helpfully-cached) rant about how difficult it was for him to "[pretend that] the handful of racist gay white men out there — and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum — are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans." Dan has apparently changed his mind about whether the black community is to blame for Prop 8's passage in California. He appeared on the Colbert Report last night and said, "I don't feel like we can pin this all on the African-American community." He's now blaming it on old people "and they're dying, which is some comfort." Although he doesn't address his earlier writings at all, he does crack Steven Colbert up, so watch and enjoy his anal sex jokes. More »
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I went to see Joan Rivers do a stand-up set at The Cutting Room in NYC this week. She spent her time cutting up celebrities ("Michael J. Fox is better in bed now that he has Parkinson's"), herself ("My breasts are so low, I kick them when I walk"), and Sarah Palin ("That baby isn't retarded. He's tired! That kid didn't sleep for two months straight on the campaign trail!"). But it was the jokes about old people that stood out the most. The 75-year-old entertainment icon went on and on about how much she hates old people, and how they smell and how forgetful they are. The irony is that in the middle of her act, she started repeating her entire bit about old people. More »
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A daughter and son visit their ailing mother in her assisted-living apartment. The daughter organizes her mother's wardrobe, cleans her dentures, and is the one Mom comes to when she needs diapers. The son spends his visit "tap-tap-tapping on his BlackBerry." So who gets all the praise for being a wonderful child? If you guessed the son, you must already be familiar with the dilemma Jane Gross describes in "Dividing the Caregiving Duties, It’s Daughters vs. Sons," her post on the New York Times' New Old Age blog. According to Gross — and Dutiful Daughters (and Sainted Sons), a website she references — it's common for daughters to do all the hard work in caring for aging parents, and her sons to get all the credit. But instead of complaining, daughters should just shut up and deal with it. More »
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• We met an Austrian man who locked his daughter and their children in his cellar for 24 years. Sometimes the eyebrows can reveal the psychopath inside! • Sometimes we eat our trash, it is sort of like recycling! • We told old people to get off Facebook or at least un-tag us from unflattering boozy pictures! • Miley posed in a sort-of sexual picture in Vanity Fair, Disney blamed the lesbian. • But where was the widespread outrage when Annie Leibovitz was casually racist, again and again and again? • Tyra introduced us to a dad who not only pimps out his daughter but also gives her at-home bikini waxes. • We met 5 types of extreme shoppers, all of them annoying! • We met some scrappy young sorority girls who brand pledges in the groin with forks. • We took a look back at our favorite Tyra episodes with almost as much glee as she has in talking about herself. • We told Elisabeth Hasselbeck to STFU already. • We found out we aren't in a recession! But the world is going to shit. • Oh yeah! And Mimi got married! And, uh Latina magazine broke the story? More »
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"Under what conditions do you consider it appropriate for an elderly 'lady' to drink beer directly from the bottle?" asks a reader of the syndicated Miss Manners column today. The reader goes on to describe the situation: The scene is "an upscale retirement facility" where there is happy hour before dinner. Residents often bring their drinks from happy hour to the dinner table, which is fine, but the dining room is "very nice." The complaint? "One woman (age 70 to 75) brings a beer and drinks it from the bottle during her dinner. I contend that anyone who brings the beer with them should have it poured into a glass — particularly an elderly woman." Miss Manners answers, "chug-a-lugging is not becoming in such circumstances... For anyone of any age or gender." But Miss Manners — if that is her real name — is forgetting something very important: More »
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