Grief is common in old age as spouses, other relatives and friends die.
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Seniors in this group are on Medicare and have presumably paid taxes for all these years towards this program that is now caring for them in their old age, as it should be.
And as individuals live longer, they are increasingly prone to such "old age" problems as diabetes and heart disease - chronic ailments that are usually more expensive to treat.
Many diseases of old age, such as Alzheimer's, are now thought to be linked to changes in mitochondrial genes.
But it also showed that support for medical research into illnesses which affected people in old age, such as arthritis, dementia and strokes, was not a priority.
Prolonged oestrogen secretion would certainly keep a woman fertile longer, and it might also keep her healthier in old age as those who use hormone-replacement therapy are well aware.
Even as images on cards, or as ornaments hanging in a window, angels perform their age-old function as messengers and mediators between the seen and unseen, or material and spiritual, worlds.
Equally as important, old age seems to breed an acceptance of life as it is.
Governments are bound to spend more on the old as societies age.
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Twentieth-century orchestral composers certainly followed suit, but despite all the interesting, intricate, and even intimate music that's been written for trumpet over the last century and a half, the trumpet has never lost its age-old character as a signaling instrument, an instrument that can call people to attention in a powerful and dramatic way.
As she ventures from childhood to adulthood and old age, the song becomes more complex as it moves along.
The Madoff case may be the most spectacularly successful example of an age-old phenomenon known as affinity fraud.
The pic shows a 3-year-old boy, the same age as my own son, waving to me from in front of his war-torn house.
The fund industry hopes that as Europeans are forced to think harder about their old age, many will come to see that safe investments such as bonds and bank deposits generate lower long-run returns than equities do.
It was true that old age had finally got her, as her daughter-in-law said.
But Barack Obama is only 56 years old, about the same age as a restless Bill Clinton was when he left the White House.
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Police charged a 26-year-old man -- the same age as Pistorius -- with murder in connection with the shooting and said he will appear in a Pretoria magistrate court Thursday afternoon.
It has to be said that the old Bousque woman, as old as she was, had not become pious with age, an unusual state of affairs in this part of the country.
As a five-year-old, she had to lie about her age when she auditioned, as the casting notice asked for children aged six to nine.
And finally, only in the nutty Internet age could something old-school such as printing be new again.
Dictionaries, and people who study the age-old activity, define terrorism as the use of violence and fear to pursue political goals.
It is a striking thing to note that well over 60% of the beneficiaries in this program, which so often is misunderstood as only on old-age benefit system, are women and children.
Moreover aspects such as mutual care within traditional gender roles and bringing up children as a form of old-age insurance had huge practical importance and were much more important than romantic love.
Gaming will eventually eclipse the movie industry in sales, as titles sell for 6x that of movie tickets, and it will become ingrained into the culture of nearly all age groups, from old to young, as a generations raised on games grow up.
As keepers of an age-old tradition, sportsmen and women share a deep and abiding bond with our environment.
As the 24-34 year old age group entered the workforce, the real estate crisis hit and subsequently, industries shrank, causing jobs to disappear.
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This new age will use old storage interfaces in new ways as well as lead to whole new classes of client and enterprise storage capabilities.
Part of that is age, as 39-year-old Jason Kidd was tasked with chasing much younger point guards for the four weeks before Raymond Felton returned from an injury.
Also, last I checked, over 50 is not as old as it used to be and middle age to senior status does not preclude one from being hungry and full of energy and ambition.
She went on to paint a picture of those her age "back in the day" as old people -- wrinkled, shriveled up and discarded by society.
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