Seniors Conquer Loneliness and Chores With App That Hires 'Grandkids On-Demand' at College
Seniors no longer have to suffer through the loneliness of their golden years thanks to an app that pairs them with "grandkids on-demand".
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eBay Seller is Moved to Tears Over Heartfelt Thank-You Note From 86-Year-old Who Bought VHS Player
Most eBay bidders just leave online reviews for their purchases, but this 86-year-old man is melting hearts across the internet with his heartfelt letter.
Watch Police Officer's Viral Video of Three Young Rappers Helping Elderly Woman Get into Her Car
Officer Carnegie was about to help the older couple when she saw three young men offer their assistance – so she pulled out her phone and started filming.
Oldest Nobel Prize Winner Waves Off 2018 Win So He Can Talk About Solar Invention That Will 'Save the World'
This 96-year-old inventor seemed much more excited to talk about his new technology, rather than reminiscing about his old work.
100-Year-old Lady Has Sweetest Reaction to the Mountie Who Granted Her Birthday Wish to Dance
This 100-year-old woman could not stop smiling when a compassionate Mountie stepped forward to grant her birthday wish.
Senior Enrolls in University After Alzheimer's Diagnosis: 'It's a good thing because I was bored being retired!'
This 81-year-old with Alzheimer's hopes that his determination will inspire other dementia patients to fight their diagnosis.
Wrinkles May Soon Be a Thing of the Past Thanks to New Skin Cell Discovery
Not only could the discovery spell the end of aged skin, it could also serve as a stepping stone to defeating several common diseases and infections.
Scientists Praise 96-Year-old for His Hobby of Saving Dwindling Bluebird Populations
Ornithologists have credited Al Larson for bolstering Idaho's bluebird population after he started building hundreds of his own wooden nests.
Donors Step Up for 101-year-old Evicted Woman in Detroit
A fund has been created and a guardian angel stepped forward for a 101-year-old Detroit woman displaced from her home by eviction. A longtime member of her church took in the wheelchair-bound woman and a contractor volunteered to build the wheelchair ramp needed at her new residence.
France Interrupts Two Bullet Trains to Aid Lost Woman
Earlier this month, workers at France's national railway company, SNCF, delivered extraordinary customer service to help an elderly woman who boarded the wrong high speed train and was headed 250km in the wrong direction.
Research Shows Our Happiness Steadily Increases Once We Pass 45
A new research study of people in the U.S. and UK shows that once we reach middle age, we start growing happier. The study analyzed the lifestyle and health of more than 10,000 people and found respondents reported better mental quality of life as they aged.
The World's Oldest Body-Building Grandma Shows Others How to be Healthy, Happy
She started body-building at age 71 and begins every day with a ten-mile run. At 75, this Baltimore grandmother has made it her mission to teach others how to to be healthy, happy and prosperous. Age is just a number, Miss Ernie tells the class at her church.
Aging Better With Art: Low-Income Seniors Thrive in Artists Colony
Tim Carpenter is changing the way elderly Californians experience aging by turning low-cost senior housing communities into vibrant centers for learning and creativity. The 13-year-old Los Angeles-area program, EngAGE, provides arts, theater and wellness classes for some 5,000 people — the vast majority of them low-income — living in senior apartment communities.
Dream Comes True After Coded Message Sent 60 Years Later
The story began on Martha's Vineyard where an 81-year-old mystery writer received a coded message in the mail. Cynthia wondered if it wasn't from the same man who sixty years earlier passed coded notes to her in a biology lab.
70-Year-old Finally Fulfills Dream of Trying On Wedding Dresses
Right after World War II, Ruth Crawford recalls, big weddings were a rarity for Americans. That's when she married the love of her life, but never got to wear a gorgeous dress. The 70-year-old widow still wished she had gotten to try on wedding dresses, when an organization called Second Wind Dreams came to her rescue.
Aging Better With Art: Low-Income Seniors Thrive in Artists Colony
Tim Carpenter is changing the way elderly Californians experience aging by turning low-cost senior housing communities into vibrant centers for learning and creativity. The 13-year-old Los Angeles-area program, EngAGE, provides arts, theater and wellness classes for some 5,000 people — the vast majority of them low-income — living in senior apartment communities.
Giant Corporations Invest in Child (and Elder) Care
22 of the largest and best-managed firms in the U.S. formed the American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care, to invest money into lifting the quality and availability of child care and elder care programs.
Hundreds of Elderly Volunteers Want to Clean up Fukushima Plant
A group of more than 200 Japanese seniors are volunteering to clean up the mess left in the Fukushima nuclear power station. All are over the age of 60, many are retired engineers, and they are taking responsibility for the nuclear power plants which their generation erected.
Elderly Man Starts Painting his Run-down Town, Strangers Join in
Jim Cotter was so sad after losing his wife last year that he needed to find something to do. He decided to spruce up his community -- by painting everything in sight. Well, the idea has really caught on. The once-thriving coal community of Glouster, Ohio had been peeling - and unappealing - for years. Now it glistens, every fence, building and guardrail.
"Friends for Life" Connects Caring People To Lonely Seniors In Need
The group Friends For Life cares for elderly people who are living alone or in nursing homes without visitors, because everyone should have someone who cares.
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