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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...
Life
British Columbia health officials announced that six new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in the province, and more worrisome is that two...
World
“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...
Life
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...
Tech & Science
The meal-assisting robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Washington. The robot uses a specially developed object-detection algorithm termed RetinaNet. The...
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Spanish police said Thursday they rescued an elderly man and woman locked up in a house, allegedly drugged and fed via a tube by...
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“World’s oldest man” Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, died on Sunday aged...
World
More than 150 million vulnerable people worldwide were exposed to potentially life-threatening heatwaves last year, scientists said Thursday, warning that climate change posed an...