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Israeli authorities would need to relocate some 450 USSR immigrants, many of whom are in their 80s, from a plot of land to facilitate the construction of a new US embassy. And there is no solution in sight. The plot in Jerusalem’s predominantly Jewish Arnona neighborhood is owned by the United States and currently accommodates […]
MODIFIED “smart” homes for the elderly could mean a saving of £2.5billion a year for the NHS and councils, a report has claimed. Over the next decade, 78,000 adapted homes will be needed for older people each year, according to a study by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
SENIOR citizens who have a positive attitude towards ageing are up to 50 per cent less likely to develop dementia, according to new research today. The study showed that older people who have positive beliefs about old age are less likely to develop dementia.
DAYTIME dozing could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease in older people, research claims.
US scientists found those with disturbed night-time sleep patterns, leading to daytime snoozing, were more likely to have the first traces of the disease – and they occur much earlier than thought. Researchers said it was unclear if disturbed sleep put people at risk of Alzheimer’s or if disease-related brain changes caused disrupted sleep rhythms. […]
FAMILY doctors have been told to give the over-75s a new super vaccine against flu from next autumn after public health experts said the current jab had little effect on the elderly. Daily Express :: Health Feed
The injection used this year as part of the £100million winter vaccine campaign will be scrapped for those over 75 next winter and replaced with a new jab experts hope will prove more effective. NHS England wrote to all GPs last week to inform them of the move. Those 65 and over who could also […]
Enlarge / What’s he doing? (credit: Hugo Bernard / Flickr) Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like childhood, adolescence, and gender—is a social construct, and a modern one at that. Coughlin argues that […]
CBS News A family is suing Alaska Airlines and a contractor after an elderly woman died following a fall down an escalator in a wheelchair at Portland International Airport. The family indicated that she needed assistance traveling between gates to a connecting flight when they bought her ticket, but a surveillance video shows the woman navigating […]
Published time: 26 Dec, 2017 23:04 Surgeons in the Russian Republic of Buryatia were shocked to discover 152 foreign objects, including nails, screws and latches, inside the stomach of a 74-year-old woman. The doctors at Semashko Republican Hospital in Ulan-Ude, located 100 km southeast of Lake Baikal, opted for an endoscopy to reveal the reasons […]
