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Before entering coronavirus lockdown with the rest of Britain in March, 73-year-old Pamela Cox had never shopped or banked online. Zoom was something you...
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A fire broke out in a retirement home in the Moscow region, killing at least nine people, local authorities said Monday. The blaze in...
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Bjorn Branngard’s mother died in a Stockholm nursing home where five of the eight people in her section and more than a third of...
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Elderly residents left soiled and unfed after their caregivers fled the premises, 31 deaths in the space of a few weeks: a nursing home...
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Italian doctors and unions have warned that a government policy to send patients discharged from hospital but still positive for coronavirus to care homes...
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In Italy, Spain and France, old people’s homes have been ravaged by coronavirus with the elderly and the infirm taking the brunt of the...
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A 103-year-old woman in Iran has recovered after being infected with the new coronavirus, state media reported, despite overwhelming evidence the elderly are most...
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British Columbia health officials announced that six new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the province, and more worrisome is that two...
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“Grandpa Wong” holds a cane above his head as he pleads with riot police to stop firing tear gas — an 85-year-old shielding protesters...
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As life expectancy increases,frailty is a major issue in relation to the aging population. It is estimated that approximately one in four older adults...