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The Chinese government newspaper Global Times highlighted a growing trend in the country on Sunday of refurbishing kindergarten facilities into nursing homes, or adding amenities for seniors to children’s play and education sectors, as a way to participate in the “flourishing silver economy.”

House Republicans are raising concerns about alleged mistreatment of and the denial of necessary medical care for two jailed pro-life activists.

A caregiver is accused of assaulting a 93-year-old dementia patient with a soiled diaper at a senior living facility in Flint Township, Michigan.

Police arrested a 16-year-old after an elderly woman was assaulted and robbed outside a church in Queens on Sunday.

A 73-year-old man in Daytona Beach, Florida, says he was beaten with a metal object and robbed after a woman lured him with a romantic date.

Health officials say an elderly man who lived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula is the first individual to die of a virus known as Alaskapox.

Two elderly high school sweethearts have made awe-inspiring headlines by rekindling their past romance after spending 73 years apart.

A 90-year-old woman was rescued Saturday after being trapped underneath rubble left behind by the recent earthquake in Japan.

A young woman in Clayton, North Carolina, is comforting her neighbors who need a friend in a special way this Christmas season.

A 90-year-old woman is inspiring others to reach their academic dreams with a good attitude and hard work.

A young bank teller in Houston, Texas, is accused of stealing $180,000 from an elderly customer with whom she built a rapport.

A 65-year-old woman was attacked recently while walking through a Publix parking lot in Riverview, Florida, and law enforcement have identified the suspect.

An 88-year-old man in Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio, recently got a huge Christmas surprise from his community.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported hospitals are bracing for a surge of respiratory infections among the elderly, beginning in mid-December and peaking “around New Year’s Day in 2024.”

A grandmother had the time of her life when she took on a special role at her granddaughter’s recent wedding in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

A 93-year-old woman in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has reached a massive fundraising goal as she fights to keep her land on Jonesville Road out of a developer’s hands, the Island Packet reported Friday.

A first grader in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, is honing her reading skills thanks to some very special friends.

A Florida golfer has been arrested on a manslaughter charge regarding the death of a man who was 87 years old at the Glenview County Club in The Villages.

Two very active Washington state residents reached their milestone birthdays at the same this month.

A husband and wife in Oxnard, California, who are in their 90s, celebrated their love in an unexpected place.

A senior citizen in Buckeye, Arizona, did something extremely brave Thursday to celebrate her 90th birthday, simply because she can.

A former Circle K worker is suing the company after it fired her for an encounter with an armed thief in Westminster, Colorado.

Caregivers and loved ones are robbing elderly Americans of $20.3 billion annually.

An elderly woman with a walker allegedly robbed a bank in New Orleans Friday morning, years after a similar attempt in 2014.

The New York Times faced massive backlash online after publishing a response to an inquiry about escaping one’s “obligation” to continue visiting a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, noting that “other considerations” such as oneself and “emotional well-being” can “matter more.” 

Missouri law enforcement was called on Wednesday when an elderly woman allegedly robbed a bank and handed the teller an interesting note.

A ceramics teacher in Honolulu, Hawaii, knew exactly what to do when a fellow citizen desperately needed help on Tuesday.

A woman in Los Angeles is celebrating a milestone birthday while she also keeps family and friends smiling.

A beauty school graduate in Minnesota is perfecting her craft at a local nursing home whose residents adore her.

A 25-year-old illegal migrant from Senegal was arrested in Marseilles after allegedly raping a 64-year-old woman who had allowed him to come into her home from the street.

Macron has vowed to go ahead with the bill, which aims to raise the country’s minimum retirement age, despite nationwide demonstrations and strikes and opinion polls consistently showing a majority of French people oppose the change.

When a car fell through the ice on Iowa’s East Okoboji Lake, a teenager immediately jumped into action.

A hospice center in Urbandale, Iowa, is accused of mistakenly presuming a 66-year-old patient was dead when she was not, NBC News reported Thursday.

A woman named Maria Branyas Morera is confirmed as the world’s oldest living person, Guinness World Records announced on January 19.

A pair of Waste Management workers in Port Charlotte, Florida, are getting a lot of attention for their heroic actions.

The Irish government has banned retirement homes in the country from becoming migrant accommodation after a conservative publication published an exposé into the practice.