The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

SEOUL: South Korean lawmakers have approved a measure that would revise the way the country tallies a person’s age, ending a system that counted newborns as a year old and meaning that most of its citizens are about to get younger.

The average age of former soldiers who served in World War II and receive a military pension has surpassed 100, according to a survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.

The wannabe mother says she is trying for a baby but wonders if she is being 'selfish'.

A French citizens' council of 150 members of the public will meet Friday to begin discussions on end-of-life care, including whether assisted suicide should be legalised. As French laws have evolved over the last two decades, calls have increased to allow medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients.

'They went out together. I feel sad, but I shouldn’t. Who can expect to live a life like that?'

June and Hubert Malicote, both 100, had been married for nearly eight decades after June fell seriously ill and Hubert died of a "broken heart" hours before her death.

Chief Medical Officer Breda Smyth gives advice to parents concerned about Strep A, while the HSE investigates whether a child’s death was linked to the infection

A team of dedicated volunteers will even deliver meals on bad weather days.

June and Hubert Malicote, from Ohio, US, were married for nearly eight decades and had three children together including seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren

It costs just £4.54 a year to keep a potential life-saving alarm unit plugged in.

If an elderly person falls in their home and breaks their hip, but no ambulance is available to drive them to the hospital, do you have a functioning healthcare system? It is less a philosophical question and more a practical one, as ambulance waiting times soar.