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Older people

July 2024

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • Traffic in Los Angeles

    Pollutionwatch
    Lower air pollution may help preserve older people’s independence – study

  • Kenan Malik

    Biden, Putin, Xi, Modi: what is it that keeps old ideas, as well as old people, in power?

    Kenan Malik
  • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

    For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

  • How a family was left ‘shattered’ by a Homesafe contract on their single mother’s home

  • The older Australians who regret signing over life savings to a ‘wealth release’ scheme

June 2024

  • A train at a station with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background

    Are Australia’s public transport discounts for seniors too generous? Are they fair?

  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

  • a woman hands a plate of food to a smiling 80 -year old woman at the dinner table

    Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’

  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    Sword Granny: meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

  • One in four healthy people over 60 in UK ‘have undiagnosed heart valve disease’

  • How baby boomers can make a difference in this election

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    The principle of assisted dying – and the practice

  • ‘I’ve waited a long time for this’: woman earns Stanford master’s degree at 105

  • Less Elvis, more Taylor Swift: a clue for ‘dated’ cryptic crossword setters

  • Weightlifting at retirement age keeps legs strong years later, study finds

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘We wouldn’t let animals die in misery. Why should humans?’: Susan Hampshire on why dying must be a choice

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘After I spoke publicly about it, one woman told me I was in a death cult’: Jonathan Dimbleby on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘The flight to Zurich sounds like the worst mini-break possible’: Julian Barnes on why Britain must legalise assisted dying

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