Japanese 111-year-old becomes oldest manA Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised as the world's oldest male.
20 August 2014
A dying business: family graves in JapanEvery 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 July 2014
Man, 85, arrested for stalking woman, 80, in JapanPolice 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 June 2014
World's oldest man dies in New YorkThe 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 June 2014
Chinese elderly commit suicide to avoid coffin banSix 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.
Some blood pressure drugs found to slow dementia 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.
China island centenarians claim secret of long life 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 July 2013
Elderly shoplifters outstrip teenagers in Tokyo The number of elderly people caught shoplifting in Japan's capital city has outstripped that of teenagers for the first time since records began.
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