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FIRE KILLS 11 IN DORMITORY FOR JAPANESE WELFARE RECIPIENTS
TOKYO AP -- A fire engulfed a group home for welfare recipients in northern Japan, killing 11 people and injuring three, police and fire officials said Thursday... READ MORE›
PARENTS WHY THESE PARENTS BELIEVE THEIR KIDS GOING TO NURSERY IN A CARE HOME IS A GAME CHANGER
Pedzisi has also enjoyed gaining an insight into his daughter's day through conversations with the care home residents... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL FIRE KILLS 37, INJURES SCORES IN SOUTH KOREA
The fire started in Sejong Hospital's emergency room and had engulfed the first floor when firefighters arrived... READ MORE›
FIRE AT HOSPITAL KILLS 37, INJURES SCORES IN SOUTH KOREA
The fire started in Sejong Hospital's emergency room and had engulfed the first floor when firefighters arrived... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL FIRE IN SOUTH KOREA: PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN EXPRESSES REGRET OVER BLAZE
The fire started in Sejong Hospital's emergency room and had engulfed the first floor when firefighters arrived... READ MORE›
SOUTH KOREA HOSPITAL FIRE KILLS AT LEAST 37 PEOPLE, INJURES MORE THAN 140
The fire started from the first floor at Sejong Hospital in the southern city of Miryang. The cause is under investigation... READ MORE›
ARCHAEOLOGIST DEBUNKING MYTH THAT MOST PEOPLE DIED YOUNG PRIOR TO MODERN MEDICINE
Ms Cave next plans to sink her teeth into other age-detection methods to better understand older people in past societies... READ MORE›
DOG 'GUARDED DEAD OWNER FOR WEEKS'
The nine-year-old Havanese breed, called Zsazsa, was found in a Budapest apartment on Wednesday... READ MORE›
THE JAPANESE RICE CAKES THAT KILL
Japan's mochi rice cakes are a new year delicacy but take the lives of several people each year... READ MORE›
EATING LEAFY GREENS MAY STAVE OFF MEMORY LOSS
However, older people who ate one or two servings of vitamin K-rich food per day performed better on memory tests than those who didn't, he added... READ MORE›
'IT'S TERRIBLE - YOU CAN SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE SO FRIGHTENED'
The murder of Mrs Hanrahan, just over a week before Christmas, has had a similarly seismic impact on the communities of Thomondgate and Kileely... READ MORE›
UK STATE PENSIONS RANKED THE WORST IN THE DEVELOPED WORLDA
The British state pension is now worst in the developed world as it has fallen below Mexico and Chile, data shows... READ MORE›
AMBULANCE CREW GIVES TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT A SIDE TRIP TO THE BEACH
Tears were shed and the patient felt very happy, the Queensland Ambulance Service said... READ MORE›
UK AND US 'MUST LEARN FROM POOR COUNTRIES' TO SOLVE AGEING CRISIS
In just four years, what began with five older people associations has mushroomed into hundreds of such self-sustaining entities... READ MORE›
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HUGE RISE IN HOSPITAL BEDS IN ENGLAND TAKEN UP BY PEOPLE WITH MALNUTRITION
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07... READ MORE›
HEALTH CARE COSTS HERE'S WHAT THE U.S. COULD LEARN FROM SINGAPORE'S PLAN FOR AGING WORKERS
Singapore's largest supermarket chain, NTUC Fairprice, has also focused on employing older workers, with roughly half of its employees aged 50 or over... READ MORE›
'GET OFF FACEBOOK FOR 20 MINUTES': POLICE OFFICER PLEADS AFTER ELDERLY COUPLE FOUND DEAD
Police officer tells people to get off Facebook, reach out to elderly after isolated couple found dead... READ MORE›
SHOCK FIGURES SHOW TORY PLANS ARE 'MAKING SOCIAL CARE WORSE'
Under the Better Care Fund councils receive money, mainly from the NHS budget, in return for introducing schemes to reduce demand for hospital care... READ MORE›
'NO ONE TELLS YOU WHAT OLD AGE IS LIKE. I DON'T CARE ABOUT RAISING HELL'
Miriam Margolyes 'No one tells you what old age is like. I don't care about raising hell'... READ MORE›
HOW ROBOTS CAN ENHANCE THE LIVES OF EUROPE'S ELDERLY CITIZENS
How robots can improve the quality of life of elderly people living alone at their homes... READ MORE›
POLLS SHOW UK'S CONSERVATIVES LOSING GROUND AS POLICIES SET OUT
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Conservative's policies would set the young against the old in a war between generations ... READ MORE›
13,000 PENSIONERS COULD BE FORCED INTO CARE HOMES AGAINST THEIR WILLA
Thousands of pensioners could be forced into care homes against their will under secret NHS cost cutting plans... READ MORE›
NINE PEOPLE CHOKE TO DEATH EATING MOCHI RICE CAKES IN JAPAN
Every year, Japan's emergency services warn people to cut the mochi into bite-size pieces before serving them to young children or elderly relatives... READ MORE›
REVEALED: THE BEST AND WORST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TO GROW OLD
The Global AgeWatch Index was released on Wednesday to mark the United Nations International Day of Older Persons... READ MORE›
ELDERLY COUPLES IN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES' PATH DIED IN EACH OTHER'S ARMS
He looked out the window to flames and immediately woke his 72-year-old wife, Lynne Anderson Powell... READ MORE›
ELDERLY PEOPLE WARNED OVER ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Experts warned that GPs were less attuned to drinking problems among elderly people... READ MORE›
HOUSE OF LORDS FEARED CHEAP CHAMPAGNE AND VETOED MERGING SERVICES WITH COMMONS
All told, she has been linked by the police and the news media to seven deaths... READ MORE›
IKEA SHANGHAI FROWNS ON ELDERLY DATERS WHO OCCUPY CAFETERIA
Sad news for elderly lonely hearts in Shanghai they can no longer look for love in Ikea... READ MORE›
OLDER WORKERS 'BOOST JOBS FOR YOUNG'
Keeping older people at work can also boost wages for younger employees, argues Ros Altmann, the government-appointed champion for older workers... READ MORE›
HOW OVER-50S ARE CHANGING PATTERNS OF WORKING LIFE
Encore careers offer a bonus not least in the power to shift ageing from a problem to part of a solution... READ MORE›
NHS CRISIS GROWS AS YOUNG BRITONS TURN THEIR BACKS ON FAMILY DOCTORS
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said failure to treat younger people outside hospital would add to the financial pressures on the NHS... READ MORE›
MEET THE PENSIONERS NEXT DOOR: I DONT LET THEM KNOW I AM LONELY
I want to be independent Homa Khaleeli meets Frances London Frances is not impressed with Jeremy Hunt's latest idea... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S OLDEST TWO-FACED CAT HAS DIED
Born with three eyes, two noses and two mouths, Frank and Louie belonged to a group known as Janus cats, named after the Roman god... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON HAS LOTS OF COMPANY IN JAPAN
Already, a quarter of Japan's population of about 127 million is 65 years or older, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare... READ MORE›
FILIPINO HELPED RESCUE ELDERLY COUPLE WHEN TYPHOON HIT MACAU
A heroic Filipino man rescued an old couple caught in floodwater when typhoon Hato hit Macau last week, despite not knowing how to swim... READ MORE›
ISTANBUL SUICIDE BOMBER 'REGISTERED AS A REFUGEE A WEEK BEFORE ATTACK'
Only one person was arrested in direct connection with Tuesday's attack, which killed 10 German tourists and wounded another 15 people... READ MORE›
MEET THE YOUNGSTERS HELPING SOLVE JAPAN'S CAREGIVING CRISIS. LIKE KUNIO ODAIRA, 72.
Kunio Odaira, 72, started working at the Cross Heart nursing home in Yokohama, Japan, after retiring from his job in sales at an auto parts maker... READ MORE›
ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT OUR AGEING POPULATION
If you're an older person or work with older people, you can share your thoughts by filling in the form below... READ MORE›
STAFF AS YOUNG AS 45 SUFFER AGE BIAS, WORKPLACE REPORT REVEALS
Study author Justine Irving said as a result of discrimination, older workers faced limited employment, training and promotion opportunities... READ MORE›
FEW FEEL OLDER PEOPLE IN THE UK HAVE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE, SURVEY FINDS
In the process such projects can also demonstrate the cross-generational support that will help society manage an ageing population... READ MORE›
THE BEST AND WORST COUNTRIES FOR PEOPLE 60 AND OLDER
Australia's overall ranking of 17th out of 96 countries masks an alarmingly high rate of poverty among older Australians according to the report's methodology... READ MORE›
AMERICA IS AGING IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
Housing is doing its part, too, in contributing to the aging of America's capital stock... READ MORE›
TUNISIA HEALTH MINISTER SLIM CHAKER DIES AFTER CHARITY RUN
Mr Chaker was appointed health minister last month in a major cabinet reshuffle... READ MORE›
'IT FELT LIKE 110 DEGREE': EIGHT DIE IN 'INTENSE HEAT' AT FLORIDA NURSING HOME THAT LOST POWER IN HURRICANE IRMA
Police spokeswoman Miranda Grossman told local news outlets that fire and police crews began evacuating residents at the property in Hollywood Hills on Wednesday morning... READ MORE›