When former President Ronald Reagan fell and broke his hip at the age of 89, he joined a group of more than 350,000 elderly Americans who fracture their hips each year.

美国前总统罗纳德·里根在89岁时摔倒摔伤臀部，他加入了每年有35万多名髋部骨折的美国老年人的行列。

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The group found that those elderly people who were able to retain a sense of independence were more likely to stay healthy in old age.

该研究小组发现，那些能够保持独立意识的老年人在老年时更有可能保持健康。

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Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.

受过高等教育的人的工资大幅上涨，而这些人在步入老年后仍能获得丰厚的回报，因为如今受过教育的老年人比上一代人生产力更高。

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But experts say they are encouraged that the virus seems to be hitting hardest among people of middle age, sparing the more vulnerable groups - the elderly and children under the age of five.

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While child poverty in 2010 declines from 16.8 million in the official measure to 13.6 million in the SPM, poverty rates among working age adults and the elderly increase by almost 6 million people.

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But what about the elderly and the problem of age-related decline?

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The prime minister defended benefits for the elderly and disabled but said the system of working-age benefits had gone "truly awry" and created a "welfare gap between those living long-term in the welfare system and those outside it".

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