In some ways, South Pasadena is a preview of what the country will look like as the population of the “oldest old” soars from 5.7 million today to 19 million by 2050.

Gretchen worked with Times reporter Leonora LaPeter Anton for months on a story about living with a rare medical condition. But her suicide just before the story published left family, friends and the media all asking “Why?”

After confiding in his family about the trauma he’d been dealing with for decades, Richard Bell Jr. walks arm in arm with his daughter, Retinna Bell, 34.

A five-year divorce: Four judges, six lawyers, $400,000 in attorney and expert fees and costs, a child yanked back and forth, all the petty arguing, for what?

Gretchen Molannen tells her story, hoping to bring awareness to PGAD and the seriousness of the disability that affects unknown numbers of women.