If this is the time of year you go through your legal documents and update your estate planning, now there's something new to think about.

Here's a story on how to manage your online life after death. Jeesh.

Instead of taking your elderly mom to the Senior Center, maybe you should drop her off at the Boys and Girls Club. 

Here's a new study that shows that mentoring and volunteering can actually help old people regain brain function, or fend off decline.

It's preliminary, of course, and only followed 17 women, but it's interesting all the same.

By B.J. Roche

We didn't realize it at the time, but my late mother-in-law gave her children a great gift by moving every so often in the last two decades of her life.

If you've been taking fish oil supplements (and millions of women do-for heart and brain health), you should read up on the far-flung environmental impacts of the fish harvesting, as reported in a NY Times op-ed recently.

The alternative? Flaxseed oil.

by BJ Roche

It's not every day that one's work is read into the Congressional Record. So we're thrilled and honored that Senator Paul Kirk, who took over for the late Senator Edward Kennedy, chose Fiftyshift author and UMass Journalism Program Director Karen List's essay to enter into the record in honor of the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's first speech on health care. We're re-publishing here.

by Chloe Jon Paul