You walk into your grandparent’s home, and there’s that odor that you only smell around them or around other senior citizens. It’s often described as smelling a bit musty, stale, or like mothballs.

He stated that the smell hanging in the air was a lot like the same smell which hung in the air at an old people's care home, ...

Q. My 6-year-old grandson insists that I smell like an old person. Do you have any idea what he’s talking about? A. There was a study that suggests people can tell if you are old by how you ...

In older people, declining ability to smell is associated with a higher risk of depression and even death, although we still don’t know why. Partial or full loss of smell is often an early ...

We may smell it when we walk past older people, sit down at a table in a restaurant where they were just dining, or even in an elevator. It's a universal smell that's not just contained inside an ...