Matt Ozug
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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At the Florida Senior Games, nearly 600 pickleball players compete for spots in the 2025 National Senior Games. They say the sport has tapped into their competitive side and maintained their health.
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A group of women who've been walking their local mall together for decades share the ways their commitments to movement, and each other, have enriched their lives and health.
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DeEtte Sauer, 83, went from being a girl who wasn't allowed to participate in sports, to an elite swimmer as a senior. She talks with NPR's Juana Summers about what being active means to her.
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Older folks interested in lifting weights flock to a gym in Baltimore, where the trainer has special expertise in working with people in their 60s, 70s and 80s to build strength and independence.
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Fifty years ago this year the Oscar Mayer Bologna commercial first appeared on TV. We speak to an advertising professor about the staying power of this ad.
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Elwood Edwards, whose voice has spanned generations recorded the iconic "You've Got Mail" alert audio in 1989, has died at age 74.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with political consultant Mike Madrid on the causes that motivated the Latino voting bloc in this year's election.
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To take a break from election news, host Scott Detrow revisits the viral hit "Too Many Cooks," which turns 10 this year, with the director, Casper Kelly.
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The author of the 1973 children's book How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell, died late September of Parkinson's disease and other ailments. He was 91.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with longtime Florida meteorologist John Morales, who got emotional while reporting on Milton prior to the hurricane making landfall.