Other elderly people resort to petty theft to increase their meager purchasing power.
The detainees, it turned out, were mostly elderly people whose daughters had left town to evade family planning restrictions.
One thing is indisputable: the number of elderly people is growing worldwide, and opportunists stand ready to cash in on the burgeoning market for anti-aging products.
Fresh produce can sometimes cause serious and even fatal infections particularly in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
(Diabetics age prematurely because sugar-driven damage acquires breakneck speed, raising their levels of AGE-infused collagen to those of elderly people.
Lisa Mosconi and colleagues at the New York University School of Medicine used positron emission tomography, or PET, scans to look at the brains of 53 normal elderly people.
Scientists at the Medical Research Council found that elderly people who could still give a firm handshake and walk at a brisk pace were likely to outlive their slower peers。
