Elderly News

Sen. Jim Bradford, R-Pine Ridge, said the reservation needs a nursing home so elderly people don't have to live in facilities located far away.

Learn how to avoid financial fraud: A workshop on how senior citizens can recognize and avoid financial fraud will be held tomorrow, Feb.

A cat has "predicted" the deaths of 50 elderly patients by curling up with them as they are about to die, according to a new book.

Four elderly Germans went on trial on Monday charged with kidnapping their financial adviser and holding him prisoner in a basement in an attempt to recover 2.5 million euros in lost savings, a court spokesman said.

In all the recent reports, speeches and news conferences concerning the federal budget outlook - including the administration's proposed budget for 2011 - hardly anyone has posed these crucialquestions: what should the federal government do and why; and who should pay? We ought to go back to first principles of defining a desirable role for ...

Very old adults with poor or declining handgrip strength may be more likely to die than those who are stronger, a study finds.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on social and personal care, in London, Monday Feb.

Elderly dementia patients are being subjected to "scandalous abuse" by being drugged with dangerous antipsychotic drugs, according to a letter by ten influential health organizations, published in The Daily Telegraph .

THE Health Service Executive is losing a 80 million a year caring for elderly people at home because of large-scale inefficiencies and a complete lack of regulation, a report has claimed.

Yves Guerard, secretary general of the International Actuarial Association, said at a pensions industry conference in Singapore that the ageing issue was a "big, immediate, urgent problem" for the world's most populous region.

Social Security "is being used as a piggy bank" for the U.S. government as retirees are asked to "pay the price for the excess of Wall Street." "We don't have the courage to reduce spending so we increase taxes," the approach politicians use "every time we get into a deficit situation." The first observation was from former Representative Barbara ...

Illinois taxpayers spend more than $122 million a year to care for the mentally ill in privately run, for-profit nursing homes -- a system largely rejected elsewhere over costs, concerns about residents' rights and quality of care.

A BANK cashier who stole cash from the account of an elderly dementia sufferer has been jailed for two years.

THE Fair Work Ombudsman has issued a stern warning to a Melbourne nursing home over what it describes as heartless and shabby treatment of a long-serving elderly employee.

Staying on track to a comfortable retirement isn't only about taking care of your finances and your health.

Reporting from Ryazan, Russia - The witness has grown old and sick. He sits propped on pillows while the snow piles up outside.

All 1.6 million people who have or have had cancer are to be offered free one-to-one care in their homes from a personal nurse under plans to be announced by Gordon Brown.

These Nursing Homes Care About Their Elderly Charges - US News and World Report >> > Dick Harron's buddies think he's off his rocker when he tells them "how much fun it is" to visit his 99-year-old mother at her nursing home.

An elderly couple, who police say suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was found dead outside their home Saturday afternoon after apparently freezing to death.

In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan.