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Tag: Elderly
Shortchanged: Why British Life Expectancy Has Stalled
For the first time in modern history, Britons in some areas are living shorter lives, with poor lifestyles, depression and budget cuts the leading causes.
Risk for Dementia May Increase With Long-Term Use of Certain Medicines
Here’s what research suggests about a class of drugs called anticholinergics, which treat a wide range of ailments, from depression to bladder issues.
The Globe Is Going Gray Fast, U.N. Says in New Forecast
The latest population projection from the United Nations said fertility rates globally were declining while the percentage of older people was rising rapidly.
Britain’s big squeeze: ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints.
South Korea Dispatch: Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers
As the birthrate plummets in South Korea, rural schools are emptying. To fill its classrooms, one school opened its doors to women who have for decades dreamed of learning to read.
Spanish Election May Pivot on an Aging and Depleted Heartland
Even as Spain’s interior provinces empty out, they punch above their weight politically and could determine the outcome of Sunday’s national election.
11 things we’d Really like to know: Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer’s?
Few drugs have been approved for treatment of this dementia, and none works very well. It has become one of the most intractable problems in medicine.