The muscular deterioration is similar to that found in older people suffering from sarcopenia.
It found that antipsychotic drug dispensing in older people more than doubled when they entered care.
It can be serious in older people because of the possibility of complications like pneumonia.
Whooping cough in older people can be an unpleasant illness, but does not usually lead to serious complications.
Researchers wanted to know how life-threatening small kidney tumors were, especially in older people most likely to suffer complications from surgery.
Another interesting age-related anomaly concerns the decrease in total body water and the relative increase in body fat seen in older people.
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The researchers say that such reductions could have a substantial impact, particularly in older people, who have higher rates of heart disease.
Study leader Dr Alan Dangour said claims about the benefits of oily fish in warding off dementia in older people seemed to have been oversold.
Studies suggest social isolation is associated with a higher rate of death in older people and loneliness is the "hidden killer" of the elderly.
Previous research shows that cold weather can increase the risk of health problems in older people, including heart attacks and strokes, respiratory problems, pneumonia and depression.
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And the charity points out that even minor deterioration in a person's sight can increase the likelihood of trips and falls, in older people, can lead to broken bones, and a spell in hospital.
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The Foresight team also looked at what science could do to buffer against mental ill health, such as spotting and treating learning difficulties in children or developing biomarkers for dementia earlier in older people.
Previous research into whether or not antibiotics are beneficial in the treatment of chest infections, where symptoms include shortness of breath, weakness, high fever, coughing and fatigue, have produced conflicting results- particularly in older people where chest infections can lead to further complications.
The charity is called the Second Half Centre, a drop-in centre for older people in London, and it is the brainchild of Jill Shaw Ruddock, a former banker and author of a book that accentuates the positives of life after menopause.
One in 10 older people with children do not have family within an hour's drive of where they live.
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An unknown portion of the bulge in sales of large life policies reflects a practice in which older people buy policies and resell them to investors, who pay the premiums and become the beneficiary.
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Moreover, artificially raising premiums for the youngest plan members to pay for older plan members makes health insurance a more questionable proposition, resulting in younger people dropping their coverage even as the reduction in rates for older people encourages more of them to enroll.
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Consequently, insurers will have to raise premiums for the entire pool to offset these shifts, creating an adverse selection spiral in which both younger and older people remaining in the pool end up with higher premiums than if regulators had not intervened in the market in the first place.
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The commission's report echoed many of the problems listed recently by MPs and peers in a report on standards of care for older people in hospitals and care homes.
More than half of drowning deaths in people older than 15 occur outside of pools, according to the CDC.
Conservative AM Suzy Davies used her contribution to highlight the potential benefit of the new names in getting more older people online.
Hospitals in Wales have yet to show significant improvements in the way older people are treated, says the Older People's Commissioner for Wales.
BBC: Elderly care change 'is not showing,' says commissioner
But government ministers said there were billions of pounds being invested in services for older people, and councils had no excuse for deciding to reduce them.
The good news for Comcast, DirecTV, et al. is that a good chunk of the holdouts are, in fact, older people who grew up when all TV was free.
For example, it recommends putting in place policies which encourage women and older people to remain in the workforce.
"Following a period when we have heard so many terrible abuses in the care of older people and vulnerable patients, it is important that organisations like the NMC are in the right shape to properly perform their job of protecting patients, " he added.
Observing that younger generations in modern societies may have difficulties in understanding the values and significance of intangible cultural heritage, the Director-General noted that in traditional societies, where information from outside was limited and young people acquired new knowledge primarily from older people in their communities, intangible cultural heritage was naturally and directly transmitted from generation to generation through their daily activities.
The vaccine generally works better "in young, healthy people than it does in older persons, " Schaffner said.
But when it came to deaths associated with sugary drink consumption, the people with the least risk were people 65 and older in Japan: About 10 in a million people died from sugary drink-related causes.
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It finds older people in emerging, high-growth economies are much more positive about their retirement.
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