http://www.mail.com/subjects/41540-population-aging.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/41540-population-aging.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2087752-education-woes-achilles-heel-brazil.html SEROPEDICA, Brazil (AP) — There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years' worth of dissections fill a dozen wading pool-sized vats to the brim. With the veterinary department's inciner... Wed, 15 May 2013 17:06:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2087752-education-woes-achilles-heel-brazil.html 2013-05-15T17:06:21Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2040968-long-term-care-aging-us-me-poll.html WASHINGTON (AP) — We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging and found two-thirds say they've done little to no planning. In fact, 3 in 10 would rathe... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:49:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2040968-long-term-care-aging-us-me-poll.html 2013-04-24T17:49:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1955978-uk-study-violence-vets-troops.html LONDON (AP) — Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported Friday in a study that explores the roots of such behavior. The research found that merely being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan made no difference in rates of violent crime later on. Instea... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:52:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1955978-uk-study-violence-vets-troops.html 2013-03-15T10:52:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1933812-your-chances-dying-2023-test-offers-clue.html CHICAGO (AP) — Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room. That's according to a "mortality index" developed by San Francisco researchers for people older than 50. The test scores may satisfy people's morbid curiosity, ... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:21:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1933812-your-chances-dying-2023-test-offers-clue.html 2013-03-06T15:21:16Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1920670-adb-president-nominated-to-head-japan-central-bank.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe vowed to push ahead with more aggressive monetary easing as he Thursday nominated Haruhiko Kuroda to head the country's central bank. The current Bank of Japan governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, will step down on March 19, three weeks before his term is due to end. The nomination of 68-year-old Kuroda, an Oxford-ed... Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:16:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1920670-adb-president-nominated-to-head-japan-central-bank.html 2013-02-28T09:16:52Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882746-greeks-snatch-urban-metal-to-through-crisis.html THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — When Greece adopted the euro, it poured billions into modernizing its infrastructure, building spectacular bridges, highways, and a brand new rail transit network for Athens. Now, locked in recession and crushed by debt, Greeks are targeting many of those projects, gouging out the metal and selling it for scrap to feed ravenous... Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1882746-greeks-snatch-urban-metal-to-through-crisis.html 2013-02-11T07:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1881284-to-slow-hospital-readmission-epidemic.html WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door that for years has seemed impossible to slow. Now Medicare has begun punishing hospitals with hefty fines if they have too many readmissions, and a top official says signs of improvement are ... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1881284-to-slow-hospital-readmission-epidemic.html 2013-02-10T17:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1849236-aging-america-elder-abuse-use-shelters-up.html MASON, Ohio (AP) — She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears. The woman, in her 70s, is trying to explain how she wound up in a shelter that could well be where she spends the rest of her life. While the woman was living with a close family member, official... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1849236-aging-america-elder-abuse-use-shelters-up.html 2013-01-27T14:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842426-changing-family-dynamic-lead-to-tax-relief.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — might find some relief come tax time. The bottom line is, who's a dependent? Your kindergarten-age son, your adult daughter, her grandparents, or maybe an elderly uncle or aunt? "There's a cha... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1842426-changing-family-dynamic-lead-to-tax-relief.html 2013-01-24T07:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789692-china-requiring-people-to-visit-their-aged-parents.html BEIJING (AP) — Visit your parents. That's an order. So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" — or risk being sued by them. The amendment does not specify how frequently such visits should occur. State media say t... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789692-china-requiring-people-to-visit-their-aged-parents.html 2012-12-28T14:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1783698-help-hand-when-elderly-relatives-health-fails.html WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was living alone in New York and whose health was beginning to decline. Schwartz's dilemma was similar to that faced by more and more Americans as the population spreads out, people live ... Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1783698-help-hand-when-elderly-relatives-health-fails.html 2012-12-22T18:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1747214-illegal-immigration-drops-decade-long-rise.html WASHINGTON (AP) — New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. dropped to an estimated 11.1 million last year from a peak of 12 million in 2007, part of an overall waning of Hispanic immigration. For the first time since 1910... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1747214-illegal-immigration-drops-decade-long-rise.html 2012-12-06T16:51:00Z