elderly News

elderly News From AOL News

Ohio Woman Celebrates 119th Birthday [VIDEO]

A Warrensville Heights, Ohio, woman is marking a big birthday milestone. Rebecca Lanier just turned 119.

Elderly Hit Especially Hard as Hope for Missing Fades in Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan -- The elderly couple fled their home on foot as the warning sirens blared. But they could not keep up with their neighbors and fell behind as the tsunami rushed in. Nearly a week later, 71-year-old Taeko Kanno and her husband are still missing. "I think there is no hope," said Katsuo Maiya, Kanno's...

Study: 18,000 Elders Dying From Falls Wasn't a Big Bump

For years now, a set of deadly figures has perplexed U.S. scientists: How was it possible that the number of elderly people who died each year from falls could have soared more than 50 percent in less than a decade to reach 18,000? New research, AOL News has learned, suggests an intriguing answer: The huge increase never...

Elders Enjoying More Sex but Risking More Disease

A recent flurry of scientific reports should remove any lingering suspicion that older people automatically lose their sex drive the minute they hand in their retirement papers. That's the good news. The bad news is that too many of these turned-on elders are also contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV,...

Why Are Elders Stirring the Tea Party Movement?

(Oct. 30) -- The tea party skews old. Media descriptions of the conservative movement's protests are incomplete without references to a Walmart's worth of wheelchairs and walkers amid a sea of gray heads. Surveys of tea party supporters have found that half are over age 55 and something like a third are 65 or...