Falls are still the number one cause of accidental deaths for people over 65 years old. They can have severe effects on a senior’s physical and/or psychological condition. A new study suggests that bloodstream, respiratory and even urinary infections can cause falls not only for elderly people, but younger people as well.
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The 5th International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) will be held on April 28th – 29th, 2016 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, USA. During the two-day conference, researchers from all around the world are exposing their results regarding frailty and Sarcopenia.
On the 1st of October, 2015, Eurostat published the 2014 demographic indicators for the elderly who live in the European Union. The use of the Internet by elderly people was one of the criteria Eurostat was interested in. European seniors still do not use the Internet as much as the rest of the population; however,
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On the occasion of the International Day of Old Persons, EUROSTAT, the official statistics office of the European Union, published its recent demographic indicators on elderly people living in the EU. According to their previsions, in the EU, by 2080, 1 out of every 8 persons will be aged above 80 years old.
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According to the Canadian Statistics, for the first time in the country’s history, people aged above 65 years old outnumber the number of children aged up to 14.
