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Ohio Woman Celebrates 119th Birthday [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsA Warrensville Heights, Ohio, woman is marking a big birthday milestone. Rebecca Lanier just turned 119. ...
Study: 18,000 Elders Dying From Falls Wasn't a Big Bump
By Robert W. Stock - AOL NewsFor years now, a set of deadly figures has perplexed U.S. scientists: How was it possible that the number of elderly people who died each year from falls could have soared more than 50 percent in less than a decade to reach 18,000? New research, AOL News has learned, suggests an intriguing answer: The huge increase never happened. In the past, deaths from falls often were misattributed to pneumonia or some other disease, according to Guoqing Hu of China's Central South University and Susan P. Baker of Johns Hopkins. They believe the introduction of new federal death certificate rules in the ...
Elders Enjoying More Sex but Risking More Disease
By Robert W. Stock - AOL NewsA recent flurry of scientific reports should remove any lingering suspicion that older people automatically lose their sex drive the minute they hand in their retirement papers. That's the good news. The bad news is that too many of these turned-on elders are also contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, chlamydia and genital herpes. The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, based at the University of Indiana where Dr. Alfred Kinsey led the first large-scale studies of human sexual behavior more than 60 years ago, broke new ground by including the entire age spectrum ...
Senior Citizen Bonus Payments Nixed by U.S. House
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe check is NOT in the mail. The U.S. House fell short Wednesday in a bid to provide America's senior citizens with onetime payments of $250 next year to make up for not receiving Social Security cost of living increases this year and again in 2011. President Obama and Democratic leaders favored the payments, saying that many seniors on fixed incomes rely on the annual COLA adjustments in their monthly Social Security checks. But the bonus bill, brought up as an emergency for immediate consideration, did not muster the two-thirds super majority it needed for the fast-track treatment., the AP ...
Are Older Voters Blocking Social Policy Changes?
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (Nov. 18) -- As the baby boomers who gave us the term "generation gap" turn 65, a new divide is opening between young and old over everything from health care to gay rights to the right to get high. Republicans and Democrats alike insist it's time to stop piling debt onto future generations, yet political observers say the electoral clout of seniors may prove the biggest obstacle to reining in government spending. And just as in the 1960s, when many older Americans stood on the sidelines of the civil rights and women's movements, polls show seniors are the least enthused ...
It's a Good Bet You'll Find Lots of Elders in Casinos
By Robert W. Stock - AOL News
(Oct. 14) -- With revenues battered by the recession, the casino industry is ever more dependent upon the steady flow of cash from us old folks. We're holding up our end and then some. In Las Vegas, for example, where the overwhelming majority of visitors hit the casinos, people 65 and older accounted for 16 percent of visitors in 2005. It jumped to 22 percent in 2008 and 2009 -- a 37 percent rise in three years. "It only makes sense," David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told AOL News. "Given the economic problems, there has ...
Older Voters Leaning Republican This Year, Survey Finds
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAdd a generational divide to the problems facing Democrats this election year. Older voters are especially disappointed in the way government is working and are likely to turn out and vote in November and lean heavily towards Republicans, according to a survey out this week. The poll found that among seniors who claimed to be very interested in the election, just 40 percent said they wanted to see Democrats in control of Congress, with 51 percent saying they'd prefer the GOP in charge. The findings come from a survey released Monday by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family ...
Florida's Marco Rubio: Privatize Social Security? Who, me?
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Fallen Elders: A Button Can Save Their Lives
By Robert W. Stock - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- When Ron Campbell, a volunteer with Delaware's New Castle County police, saw a red alert on the computerized dialing system early this month, he knew there might be a problem. A 76-year-old woman, living alone in Bellefonte, had failed to answer repeated phone calls. Campbell contacted a neighbor, who discovered that the woman was lying in bed, disoriented and ill; she was rushed to the hospital. A few days earlier, an 83-year-old woman was asleep in her Smithton, Pa., home when she was attacked by two would-be thieves. During the struggle, she managed to push the button on her ...
Proposed Dividend Tax Hike Adds to Obama's Woes With Seniors
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyA recent poll conducted by Rock the Vote indicates the youth vote is up for grabs. But that may be the least of the Democrats' worries, as new policies threaten to turn off more older Americans. ObamaCare (which cuts Medicare by $500 million) is no doubt a contributor to Obama's sagging popularity among the elderly, but it's not the only factor. While the fight over the Bush tax cuts has focused mainly on whether they will be made permanent for those making $250,000 a year or more, the more politically perilous choice for Democrats may involve whether to allow taxes on dividend income to go ...
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