In Orlando, Florida, a dozen seniors gather in a YMCA twice a week. Some push walkers, others roll in on wheelchairs. After some light exercise and corny jokes, they get down to the real ...

In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet ...

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Most of us are ...

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you. By Melissa Kirsch The first poem I memorized was “Pinkle Purr” by A.A. Milne. I was around ...

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Changes in memory as you get older—frustrating as they might be—are completely normal. “It might become ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. If the neurologist Dr. Daniel Lesley sees 10 patients a day, at least half ask him the same question: Are ...

As a primary care physician, I often have older patients come to me worried about dementia. They tell me they've been forgetting names or where they put their keys, and they're concerned that such ...