The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

Charlie Falconer, Labour peer and former lord chancellor, is to introduce a private member’s bill into the House of Lords on July 26 to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. It is currently illegal in these parts of the UK to help someone to end their life. The introduction…

Adult child Jo faces a dilemma: Mom expects financial support despite a strained relationship. Is Jo obligated to help?

Australians are having less babies and the fertility plunge is being blamed on high housing costs with analysis showing parents are being pushed to the fringes.

Schools will get $77 million to provide consent education as part of a national program to foster attitudes about respectful relationships from an early age.

‘As life expectancy has increased, the proportion of time spent in good health is going down. We must urgently develop a new approach to medicine’ - Lord Lebedev

With extended life expectancy Britain has wound up an increasingly sick nation – and experts say that this is as bad for GDP as it is for our health

In the past few years, a frustrating trend has emerged in reporting on the UK’s falling birth rate. Every month or so, a study reveals new statistics pointing out that either fewer people are having children, or that the average age for first-time parents is increasing. Then a slew of…

Princess Kate's illness has reportedly "changed her priorities" and "outlook on life"

Other lives: Probation officer who rose to be a policy adviser at the Home Office on issues relating to offenders

The Prince and Princess of Wales are looking to expand their team in an unexpected way

It was only when 12-year-old Senegalese schoolboy Lassou Samb prepared to sit his end-of-year exams that his lack of any legal documentation finally caught up with him.