Research

Health and fitness help determine quality of life. A new study reports on global views on these aspects—and the results are heartening.

Pew Research Center research found that older adults’ use of technology—smartphones, social media, and the internet--continues to increase.

The Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study, a longitudinal study that followed a group of women for over 20 years, found that women ages 40-65 increasingly struggle with life balance due to dealing with multiple co-occurring stressors.

...more than half of U.S. adults (58%) are considered lonely. This is fairly consistent with pre-pandemic research that showed 61% of adults experiencing loneliness in 2019, after a seven percentage point increase from 2018...

Note to our I Start Wondering community: very little of the medical, financial, and sociological research discussed in our news media is focused on older women.