Everyone hopes that their experience with aging will be healthy and trouble-free. However, many medical disorders and conditions can make doing daily activities more difficult and limit independence. Some can worsen quality of life and even shorten life. Understanding these conditions can help people live as healthy a life as possible. Reading about them is a good start.

This section contains in-depth discussions of a wide range of topics: from abdominal aortic aneurysms to Zenker's diverticulum--and with coronary artery disease, dementia, diabetes, falls, hypertension, incontinence, osteoarthritis, and many, many others in between. The focus is on conditions that are particularly common among older people or that affect older people differently.