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A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised as the world's oldest male.

• 20 августа 2014, 12:57

Every once in a while, Kumiko Kano meets a group of people with whom she has decided to spend eternity, one of a growing number in Japan who are shunning the expense and commitment of a traditional family grave.

• 04 июля 2014, 10:20

Police have arrested an 85-year-old man in western Japan for allegedly stalking an 80-year-old woman he reportedly met when she shared a hospital room with his now-dead wife, they said Monday.

• 16 июня 2014, 14:22

The world's oldest man, a 111-year-old US immigrant from Poland, has died at a New York home for the elderly, the Guinness Book of World Records said.

• 10 июня 2014, 15:00

Six elderly people in China are said to have committed suicide to ensure they died before new regulations banning coffin burials come into force, a newspaper reported.

• 28 мая 2014, 14:48

A Guatemalan woman who used to pick coffee and tend sheep -- and who will turn 121 in November -- could be the world's oldest by far, a national newspaper reported.

• 28 мая 2014, 12:45

A class of drugs designed to lower blood pressure also slightly brakes the progression of dementia among the elderly and may even boost brain power marginally.

• 27 июля 2013, 11:02

Older adults with diabetes are between 50 and 80 percent likelier to have a disability compared to people without the disease.

• 25 июля 2013, 10:35

The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day.

• 15 июля 2013, 10:31

The number of elderly people caught shoplifting in Japan's capital city has outstripped that of teenagers for the first time since records began.

• 08 июля 2013, 10:39

The daughter of a Chinese grandmother has been ordered to visit her at least once every two months, in the first case under a new law to protect the elderly.

• 03 июля 2013, 10:01

The number of Kazakhstan elderly people living in retirement homes has reduced by 50% in three years.

• 23 июля 2012, 11:13