http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/elderly/ en-us Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:49:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141883/posts The eight young women attended high school together and worked together part-time at the Good Samaritan nursing home in Albert Lea, Minn. A criminal complaint filed Monday says they also laughed together early this year as they spat in residents' mouths, poked and groped their breasts and genitals and at times taunted them until they screamed -- or witnessed those events. Charged Monday with maltreatment of seven residents were Brianna Marie Broitzman, 19, who faces 11 charges, and Ashton Michelle Larson, 18, who faces 10. Neither returned calls Monday seeking a comment or the name of their attorneys. The six... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141883/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:49:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139337/posts SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (Nov. 27) — Edna Parker, who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker’s great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records. Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana’s Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139337/posts#comment Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:36:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135343/posts Thursday November 20, 2008 It is time for Sen. Byrd to retire His 50 years are long enough HIS friends won't tell him this, so maybe the one guy in West Virginia who is not a fan of Robert C. Byrd should tell him: It is time to retire from the Senate. Fifty years is enough. His is a remarkable story. Byrd's rise from the hardscrabble of Sophia in Raleigh County to being a couple of heartbeats from the presidency is a story that should live on at least in West Virginia lore. After a nice run as Senate Democratic... Charleston Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135343/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:55:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132169/posts <p>MEXICO CITY -- More than 100,000 elderly men in the Mexican capital can get free treatment to stimulate their sex lives, thanks to a health program launched Friday by the municipal government of Mexico City, where 70 percent of men above 70 years of age suffer erectile dysfunction.</p> Latin American Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132169/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:15:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131324/posts Watch the entire video through to the end. This happened yesterday (Tuesday) and other than on YouTube, I saw no coverage locally. The elderly woman was being interviewed while holding her cross when the homosexual mob turned on her. The news camera continued rolling despite what looks like the news cameraman being shoved; homosexuals' "No on 8" signs being thrust at the elderly woman's head and at the news camera lens; someone turned off the news camera's lights but they came on again; and in the final seconds of the news video the mob attacks. It's disgusting, hideous and... Channel 8 Palm Springs News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131324/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128201/posts WASHINGTON – In his preparation to become president, Barack Obama said Friday that he has had discussions with all former presidents — or almost all of them. "I've spoken to all of them that are living," the president-elect said in a lighter moment during his first press conference since his victory. "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances," he joked. AP via Yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128201/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:38:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125095/posts Determined to participate in a history-making election, 92-year-old Betty Owen rode in an ambulance to her polling place Tuesday and cast her ballot in a parking lot. An election judge and a support worker climbed into the ambulance with an electronic voting machine at the Tobin Library at Oakwell so Owen, dressed in her Sunday finest and resting comfortably on a gurney, could make her selections. "And you have voted," precinct judge Sam Green said after Owen pushed a red button to finalize her choices. "You know, you look so pretty in that red dress." Owen grinned. Green leaned over... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125095/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2111248/posts Unreal. Coming to a town near you. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2111248/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:19:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108815/posts Montgomery County police have charged a Hyattsville electrician with first-degree murder and five counts of robbery in connection with a rash of home invasions going back 13 months that terrified many older residents. Jose Juan Garcia-Perlera, 33, of the 5800 block of 32nd Avenue was being held without bond yesterday in the county jail. Police say he broke into five Montgomery homes, from Potomac to Chevy Chase, and tied up occupants ages 63 to 92. He is also a suspect in a home invasion in the Foxhall area of the District, police said. Garcia-Perlera is charged with killing the 63-year-old,... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108815/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:41:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107910/posts Social workers should have the power to break into homes to check that elderly and vulnerable people are not being harmed by their children, ministers have said. New laws should also give them the right to remove old people who are at risk from their homes - even if they do not want to go. Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107910/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:41:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093211/posts There is a fascinating story in The Chicago Tribune that tries to determine why it is that more white voters that once supported Hillary are now supporting John McCain. The fact that both Hillary and McCain have actual experience is of no consequence. Rather than look at why 90% of blacks are supporting Barack Obama they feel it is much more important to figure out why whites are supporting the white guy.Racial prejudice and the elderly Older white voters heavily favored Sen. Hillary Clinton over Sen. Barack Obama during the Democratic primary season, and national polls indicate that group now... Pagan Power http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093211/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092226/posts The personality is familiar to us all: the sweet old aunt, the loving grandfather or the generous widow down the street, each of them unfailingly kind toward friends and family but given to flights of shocking prejudice when the conversation turns toward ethnic groups to which they don't belong. Often the response is a nervous laugh, a wan smile or a hasty effort to change the subject. We assume that old people are the products of less-enlightened times; they're unlikely to change; and their comments, however ugly, are largely innocuous. Now, though, in the midst of the nation's first presidential... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092226/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091678/posts ARLINGTON — He opened the jacket of his suit and braced himself."Hit me," he said.What?"Go on, hit me!" he insisted, his voice a mock growl.It’s not every day one is invited — instructed — to slug a man in the stomach on his 94th birthday, but then there is only one Jack LaLanne, the godfather of American fitness.Still remarkably fit, the tireless evangelist for preventive health celebrated his birthday Friday at the Arlington Convention Center, where he spoke at a wellness conference presented by the Parker College of Chiropractic.Practicing what he preaches, LaLanne declined a slice of the cake.His wife,... FWST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091678/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087214/posts Lady Lake, Florida - EMS workers have been busy this morning at The Villages in Lady Lake, Florida. They have been responding to several people suffering from the hot conditions at the outdoor Road to Victory Rally. Governor Sarah Palin is scheduled to speak at 4:30 p.m. and hundreds of elderly residences have been gathered at the venue for several hours. Volunteers from McCain campaign have been handing out water bottles to help with the heat. The event was going to be canceled due to rain; however the concern now is the heat. The program started at 3:30 p.m. and... Tampa Bay 10 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087214/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:36:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085580/posts The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are "wasting people's lives" because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain. She insisted there was "nothing wrong" with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society. The 84-year-old added that she hoped people will soon be "licensed to put others down" if they are unable to look after themselves. Her comments in a magazine interview have been condemned as "immoral" and "barbaric", but also sparked fears that they may find wider... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085580/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:30:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085178/posts If you want a sense of how elderly Jewish Americans are likely to vote this November, speak to the residents of Jerusalem's Ramat Tamir retirement community. Nestled in the city's northern hills is a collection of Jewish seniors in neat, well-maintained apartments, where most of the ambient conversational buzz is in English and American-accented Hebrew. Its American residents are people who seemingly could just as easily have retired to Florida. One of the residents, 105-year-old Miriam Pollak, is believed to be the oldest American voter living abroad. With five generations of descendants, she "stopped counting" how many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085178/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:16:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2084765/posts AN ELDERLY widow caught with £1,300 of cocaine in her handbag told police she planned to take the drug to give her “a lift”. White-haired Betty Lily Nicholls, 77, was arrested after a tip-off that the car she was travelling in was being used to transport drugs. Exeter magistrates heard that police stopped a Ford Focus car on the M5 last November. The male driver and female passenger – Mrs Nicholls – appeared “very nervous and avoided eye contact”. When Nicholls’s handbag was searched a bag was found containing compressed white powder. Nicholls, from Bude, Cornwall, told police: “I don’t... http://new.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/61970/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2084765/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:18:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083211/posts LAGUNA WOODS - At age 88, Loraine Barr came out as a lesbian to honor her late partner after decades of keeping the relationship a secret. Now, the Laguna Woods resident is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film, "88 Years in the Closet," produced by Mission Viejo-based Your Story Here, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the ninth annual Big Bear Lake International Film Festival over the weekend. "It was a kick – a blast," said Barr, who traveled to the mountain resort with the filmmakers to watch the screening. "It was so much fun having... The Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083211/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:03:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081717/posts The fact they even wrote this piece is sick. Who thinks of this stuff? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081717/posts#comment Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:03:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079731/posts Vitamin 'may prevent memory loss' (Vitamin B12) A vitamin found in meat, fish and milk may help stave off memory loss in old age, a study has suggested. Older people with lower than average vitamin B12 levels were more than six times more likely to experience brain shrinkage, researchers concluded. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079731/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068735/posts Barack Obama has problems with Jewish seniors in Florida, say two Democratic lawmakers there. Florida state Sen. Nan Rich told JTA that Obama surrogates have been “shocked” by the hostility they have encountered at condominiums in her area aimed at their candidate. Steve Geller, who serves as the Democratic minority leader in the Florida state Senate and represents parts of Broward County, said he was nearly chased out of the "condos" -- shorthand for retirement communities -- when he said he backed Obama. "I've noticed almost a mob mentality," Geller said. "I can change people's minds in a group of... JTA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068735/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067808/posts LONDON, Aug. 25 -- The daughter of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher said Britain's "Iron Lady" is suffering from dementia, the family's first public confirmation of what has been widely rumored in Britain for several years. Thatcher's condition has deteriorated so much that she forgets that her husband, Denis Thatcher, died in 2003, her daughter said in a memoir that is to be published next month and was serialized over the weekend in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. "I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again," Carol Thatcher wrote. "Every time it finally sank in... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067808/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:47:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066985/posts The daughter of British former prime minister Margaret Thatcher tells how her mother's dementia has left her struggling to remember the simplest facts in book extracts published Sunday. Carol Thatcher wrote that, on her worst days, her mother struggles to finish sentences but shows occasional glimpses of her old self, particularly when talking about her time in Downing Street. "I had always thought of her as ageless, timeless and 100 percent cast-iron damage-proof," Carol Thatcher wrote in her memoir, "A Swim-On Part In The Goldfish Bowl", which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. "Whereas previously you never had... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066985/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064679/posts LANSING, Mich. — AARP, the national advocacy group for older Americans, is being accused of age discrimination. Bonita Brady, a 63-year-old from Michigan, says the group passed her over for a series of jobs because she was too old, despite excellent job reviews. She joined AARP in Chicago in 1996 as a health representative. She also worked for AARP in Washington before moving to the Lansing office in 2007. Brady says she lost her job in a reorganization and was passed over for nine vacancies. She sued last week in federal court in Michigan and is seeking more than $25,000. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064679/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:51:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057012/posts In a move that could lead to significant changes in medical care for older men, a national task force on Monday recommended that doctors stop screening men ages 75 and older for prostate cancer because the search for the disease in this group was causing more harm than good. The guidelines, issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, represent an abrupt policy change by an influential panel that had withheld any advice regarding screening for prostate cancer, citing a lack of reliable evidence. Though the task force still has not taken a stand on the value of screening in... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057012/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:38:43 GMT