This age group is growing the fastest because older people tend to be latecomers to Facebook.
"This seemed to me a very brave, courageous decision, " especially because older people often don't recognize their own decline, said Dr. Seth Landefeld, an expert on aging and chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The DS was a product for kids.. Just because older people are getting into cheap casual ios gaming doesnt mean much.. It means people are also willing to spend a buck playing a game on the toilet at work.
The BBC's political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue said all the main parties at Westminster were tiptoeing around the issue, largely because older people are more likely to vote than other age groups and there are county council elections in England and one in Wales later this week.
In comparing computer-game use with another activity, he said he chose crosswords because many older people enjoy the puzzles and the general perception is that they keep the brain and mind active and engaged.
States that have imposed community rating in the individual market have discovered that the total number of uninsured people rises rather than falls, because the number of older people who gain coverage due to premium reductions is more than offset by the number of younger people who drop their coverage due premiums hikes.
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This happens when there are relatively few children (because of the fall in fertility), relatively few older people (because of higher mortality previously), and lots of economically active adults, including, often, many women, who enter the labour force in large numbers for the first time.
It can be serious in older people because of the possibility of complications like pneumonia.
An executive spokeswoman said its central heating programme focused on older people because evidence showed they were the most vulnerable group.
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Large companies that offer insurance to their employees would likely face higher costs because of the additional older people they were covering.
Prof Whiteley also said he thought part of the reason young people were found to be more likely to be dishonest than older people was because "the role models are not very good".
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Last year, charity WRVS warned more than 360, 000 older people felt lonely because their children were too far away and "too busy to see them".
But authorities are also on the wrong side of long-term, demographic pressures that have nothing to do with tackling the deficit - because people are living longer, the total cost of looking after older people is increasing relentlessly.
Thirdly, there's the long standing issue of older people stuck in hospital because there isn't a suitable onwards care solution available for them.
In the US, regulators have been persuaded of the merits of this approach because they have seen the positive outcomes for older people.
We have heard of older people having to turn down treatment because of this.
Medicare is a bigger issue because not only is the population getting older and more people are using it, but health care costs have been going up way too fast.
Older people have a greater capacity for empathy because empathy is learned and refined as we age.
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Youth, incidentally, are said to be leaving Facebook, perhaps because they see it as a place increasingly spammed by older people who have joined the network: eg. inspirational quotes superimposed on sunsets, stale memes, etc.
"In some ways, it's invest to save, because if you can get people staying independent - particularly older people - longer, it keeps them out of the health service, it keeps them out of hospitals therefore you're saving money in the NHS, " he said.
She said she was worried about her older son, Matthew, because he seemed so down after several people forgot his birthday the day before.
The boards said this option would mean older people being cared for in the wrong environment, because it combined patients with unexplained disorders with those whose illnesses could be explained.
They say that could end up worsening pollution because people who can't afford new vehicles will drive their older, dirtier ones longer.
Because this imposes unfair burdens on firms that attract lots of older or sicker people, reform is likely to include government-funded mechanisms for risk pooling or reinsurance.
Care for vulnerable older people has been suffering - both in quality and quantity - because of funding cuts, a survey of 200 social workers suggests.
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In the past, "older people with mortgages didn't want to start a startup because it was seen as too risky, " says Jessica Livingston, a founding partner of Y Combinator.
Now that I'm older, I see many people stuck in jobs they don't like because it's the only way they can get health insurance.
He finds that older and more traditional supervisors usually oppose the idea because they fear that they cannot manage people whom they cannot see.
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He also advises young people to take on the biggest challenges early in their careers because as they get older, they may take on family responsibilities and their tolerance for risk will decline.
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Many young people who would love to leave their hometowns cannot do so because they need a stable job before older Italians will rent them a flat, let alone give them a mortgage.
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