As the country continues to age, the truth may not be pretty for those whose health may wane.

Health: Report: Caregiving crisis looming in U.S. (Texarkana Gazette)
With people living longer, the unavoidable question is who will provide the additional care required in the future. The answer will be no one, if major changes to the caregiving system are not made, according to a comprehensive report about future care

Abigail Trafford has some fairly unique refreshing opinions on how we should / could structure the workforce in light of the life expectancy increases.  This is the first revolutionary look I've seen regarding changing workforce roles due to human longevity improvements.

(Original Article)  Backpedaling on the Life Cycle (Washington Post)
PALO ALTO, CALIF. -- What if we turned the life cycle upside down? I am sitting in the office of Laura L. Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and we're exploring ideas for a new chronological agenda that would be m ...

The BBC has just done a story on Ray Kurzweil's Life Extension Efforts.
Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey are arguably  the two most notable individuals helping with the life extension movement.

Anytime the popular media starts to pick up these stories, we are helping to move society in the right direction cognitively.

Thanks Ray, and keep up the good work!

(Original Story)  Introducing humans version 2.0 (BBC News)
The half-human, half-robot cyborg has long been a vision nurtured by science fiction writers and futurologists. But how close are we to humans 2.0, computer-enhanced people?

Award From NIH To Create One Of Nation's Top Neuroscience Research Centers (Medical News Today)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $12.7 million to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research for a collaborative research program including Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), The Scripps Research Institute (Scripps) and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) that will create one of the nation's top research facilities in the neurosciences.

Specifically, the grant will support neuroscience in 13 core areas, including: stem cells, proteomics, crystallography and nuclear magnetic imaging work, structural biology, functional genomics, genetic analysis, neurobehavior in mice, diseas ...

It seems that mole rats incur high levels of oxidative stress on a regular basis; yet, they live longer than other rodents of similar size, sometimes up to thirty years!

Some as of yet unknown mechanism is helping them cope with aging.  The article linked to below suggests that perhaps they have found a way to deal with acute oxidative stress as opposed to the constant chronic kind we are always up against; but, that seems to be pure speculation at the moment.

Perhaps they have achieved better command over one of Aubrey de Grey's Seven Deadly Things.