As we age, skin changes, chronic health conditions, and medications can affect how tattoos heal and raise the risk of infection. Older adults need to consider the health risks before getting tattoos.

With two full sleeves of tattoos at age 68, Barb Jerabek turns heads. She has ready advice for people of her generation who ask her advice about getting ink: “If not now, when?” Jerabek said, “Time ...

It’s been a month since I took one of the biggest risks of my life: getting a tattoo. I had been planning it for a while. I’d scroll through Pinterest and romanticize the idea of ink permanently ...