News about elderly

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.

27 July 2013 11:02

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

25 July 2013 10:35

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 10:31

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.

08 July 2013 10:39

Grandmother, 77, wins first China neglect case: report 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 July 2013 10:01

Number of Kazakhstan elderly people in retirement homes halved in 3 years The number of Kazakhstan elderly people living in retirement homes has reduced by 50% in three years.

23 July 2012 11:13

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