Physical activity is an important aspect of healthy aging. It encourages overall well-being and mental health, and helps reduce the risk of falls and of functional impairment.
A new generation of “Wearies” – Working, Entrepreneurial and Active Retirees – is being created as they work into their 70s and beyond due to the pensions crisis, it is claimed.
Savage cuts to a host of previously "untouchable" State services were considered by the Government as a result of the State's dire financial position, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
There is widespread concern about the potential adverse impact on workers compensation loss costs as the "baby boomers" postpone retirement and accelerate the aging of the workforce.
Wang Fuchuan lies in bed wearing a quilted black jacket, with two comforters pulled up to his chin to keep out the chilly November air. The heating at Beijing Songtang Caring Hospice is broken and the 90-year-old’s nostrils are stuffed with toilet paper to stop them dripping.
Fifty years after its inception, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging will have a more important role than ever as America's senior population continues to grow, according to the newest issue of the Public Policy and Aging Report (PPAR).
Irish Senate Committee on Public Consultation: Hearing on the Rights of Older People
29 September, 2011. Dublin.
Statement of Professor Gerard Quinn on the case for a new UN Treaty on the Rights Older People
Toni Davis spent much of her childhood roaming the corridors of a nursing home in West Orange, N.J., where her mother was the director. Even now she recalls the pleas of the residents there:
ÁINE CAMPBELL says that when the subject comes up, her 70-year-old father just closes his eyes. So she no longer talks about the threat to his “home” of four and a half years.
