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There are important tips we can use to help us take the best care we can of our aging parents.

For sandwich generation, planning ahead is key to good elder care. How do you take the car keys away from a father who taught you to drive? When did he go from wise council to frail, elderly man?

A 92-year-old woman is charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police say.

A measure backed by President Obama to pay 57 million elderly people, veterans, and disabled is nixed.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the central Texas towns where a series of rapes and robberies of elderly women have been occuring in the past year.

The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

The number of centenarians already has jumped from an estimated few thousand in 1950 to more than 340,000 worldwide today, with the highest concentrations in the U.S. and Japan, according to the latest Census Bureau figures.

Study's finding may prove useful when and if a vaccine to new swine-flu strain becomes available.

The Newark Police Department gives seniors hands-on training designed to empower.

Senior citizens in a Massachusetts community told a town official to keep his hands off their doughnuts. Francis "Bill" Johnson, chairman of Ashburnham's advisory board, said at a Council on Aging meeting this week that spending money on doughnuts and pastries for the Senior Center's morning coffee club encourages unhealthy eating habits in a population that already has health issues.