Elderly News

Palo Alto police are searching for an elderly woman with Alzheimer's diseases who walked away from her assisted living facility Saturday morning.

Pasadena police Saturday continued to search for a 73-year-old man with dementia who went missing after walking away from his care facility.

Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival.

Animals make great companions for senior citizens, but elderly people who always drive with a pet in the car are far more likely to crash than those who never drive with a pet, researchers have found.

At the next legislative meeting of the Council of the District of Columbia, Councilmember Anita Bonds will introduce legislation titled, "Senior Citizen Real Property Tax Homeowner Relief," which will allow residents who have maintained residency for 25 years or more to be exempt from real property taxes, if the homeowner is aged 80 years or older ... (more)

Instead of subsidizing coverage for a Honda version of health insurance, the governor wants to use your money to provide a Cadillac plan - a self-inflicted extra cost.

A man going by Capt. Jack Truska, Sgt. Drumbowski or "some other gruff TV cop name" is targeting elderly women and scamming them out of tens of thousands of dollars, according to the Seattle Police Department.

A fire at a senior citizen high-rise in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood left an elderly woman critically injured Friday afternoon.

The indictment alleges that Benchmark Capital, Inc. was engaged in an elaborate scheme that lured investors, many of whom were elderly, into investing their retirement savings and the equity in their homes in phony annuity investments.

BULL CREEK ATTACK: Police say a man fitting this description punched a shopper in the face, knocking her to the ground.

Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.

A charitable trust which runs a care home in Stamford is being taken to court over the death of an elderly woman resident.

The election of 2012 is over, but the extremists persist in their desire to eliminate the deficit by destroying Medicare, Social Security, and entitlements.

Ed Husic presents the Judges Commendation Award to Shweta Sharma with two judges, Josephine Rechichi and Chris Pilao looking on.

A South Florida woman is facing a grand theft charge after she drove an elderly man to Broward County banks and made him withdraw tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said.

A certified nursing assistant is accused of taking money from the room of an elderly woman living at an assisted living facility in Town and Country.

THE economic downturn is having a marked impact on the wellbeing of 'asset rich, cash poor' older people in Dorset, Bournemouth University researchers have found.

The Newington Town Council last Tuesday, May 14, officially approved an application for a $20,400 technical assistance grant that will be used to hire a consultant to advise them on areas within which senior citizen housing can be constructed.

A shocking one in three pensioners are struggling to make ends meet as bills for everyday essentials continue to rocket and incomes fail to keep up.

The cheerful voice on the phone says you can protect yourself and your loved ones with an emergency medical alert.