Of all the “isms,” ageism is arguably the hardest to address because old age neither a valued stage of life nor an identity that many claim. The coronavirus pandemic may have made that effort even harder.

For decades, bioethics scholarship, empirical research, and recommendations concerning older adults has focused on decisions and care in patients nearing the end of life. Until recently, bioethics work on aging...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded The Hastings Center a collaborative research grant for The Meanings of Dementia: Interpreting Cultural Narratives of Aging Societies. This project will produce...

The United States is an aging society, where one in five people will be 65 or older by 2035. While bioethics scholarship on aging has historically concerned itself with issues...

Edited by Nancy Berlinger, Kate de Medeiros, and Mildred Z. Solomon The United States is an aging society, where one in five people will be 65 or older by 2035....