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3 unusual facts about Old age


Bettringen

The Stiftung Haus Lindenhof (House Lindenhof Foundation) is a Catholic institution for disabled and old people.

Charles Foti

A long-time advocate for the elderly, during his time as criminal sheriff, Foti organized Thanksgiving meals for New Orleans senior citizens who were alone or could not afford a holiday meal.

SkylineFM

The station plays a wide range of music, along with regular items of interest to the local community, focusing on groups such as amateur dramatic societies, choirs, senior citizens clubs and scout groups, which are considered too small to be given much airtime by larger radio stations in the area.


Michelle Tempest

As well as general psychiatry, she has expertise in rehabilitation psychiatry, learning disability psychiatry, old age psychiatry and liaison psychiatry.

The Old Man and the Sea

One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

A team of doctors tell Billy and his mother Nancy (Betty Buckley) that there is no cure for his condition and that he will die of old age related natural causes decades before his time.


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Abdelkrim Ghallab

Interview with Abdelkarim Ghallab, Remembering for Tomorrow (publication of the European Cultural Foundation and Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Annette van Beugen and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla) about his autobiographical books The Seven Doors (Sab'at abwab), The Book of Formation, An Unjust Old Age (al-Shaykhukha alzalima) and Cairo Reveals its Secrets (al-Qahira tabuhu an asrariha).

Christian Jacq

In his marital life, he first has Isetnofret (Iset) as a mistress (second Great Wife), meets his true love Nefertari (first Great Wife) and after their deaths, gets married to Maetnefrure in his old age.

Claude Grahame-White

After this he lost his interest in aviation, eventually moving to Nice in his old age, where he died in 1959 having made a fortune in property development in the UK and US.

Edward Sheffield Bartholomew

Among his best-known works are Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry (1851, now in the Metropolitan Museum), Eve, Campagna Shepherd Boy (Peabody Institute), Genius of Painting, Youth and Old Age, Evening Star, Eve Repentant (Wadsworth Atheneum), Washington and Flora, A Monument to Charles Carroll (near Baltimore), Bellsarius at the Porta Pincinia, and Ganymede.

Eskil of Lund

He, nevertheless, continued his campaign with youthful ardour, even in his old age, till, after the conquest of Rügen, the Wends accepted Christianity.

Franziska Liebing

She died on August 4, 1989, from old age, at the age of 88, at a nursing facility in Munich, Germany, although some sources state Krommenie, Netherlands, she died in Munich.

Gérard Cuny

In October 1958 he participated to the first meeting of the clinical European section of the International Association of Gerontology in Sunderland (England), during which the Nancy school (R. Herbeuval and G. Cuny) will present the "Treatment of prostate cancer and adenoma of the prostate" in the session on "Genito-urinary disturbances in old age."

Geriatric medicine in Egypt

In a chapter entitled "Regimen of Old Age", Avicenna was concerned with how "old folk need plenty of sleep", how their bodies should be anointed with oil, and recommended exercises such as walking or horse-riding.

Health in Libya

Health, training, rehabilitation, education, housing, family issues, and disability and old-age benefits are all regulated by “Decision No. 111” (dated December 9, 1999) of the General People’s Committee on the Promulgation of the By-Law Enforcement Law No. 20 of 1998 on the Social Care Fund.

Henry Durant

Old age did not keep Durant from being elected the 16th mayor of Oakland, although he only served for three years before dying in office, on January 22, 1875.

John II of Aragon

In his old age John was blinded by cataracts, but recovered his eyesight by the operation of couching conducted by his physician Abiathar Crescas, a Jew.

John Manningham

He was also befriended by a distant relative, Richard Manningham, who, born at St Albans in 1539, made a fortune in London as a mercer, and in his old age retired to Bradbourne, near Maidstone.

Karōshi

The French-German TV channel Arte showed a documentary called "Alt in Japan" (Old in Japan) on 6 November 2006 dealing with old age workers in Japan.

Kostas Gousgounis

Member of the Greek Parliament Liana Kanelli has declared that if she had to choose between the subtext of the Sarkozi-Merkel alliance, which supports Berlusconi on one hand, and Gousgounis on the other, she would choose Gousgounis even in his old age.

Lobsang Yeshe, Fifth Panchen Lama

The Panchen Lama refused a few times on the grounds of old age but was finally convinced to take control of the whole of Tibet lying to the west of Panam, and relinquished possession of Phari, Gyantse, and Yardosho and other places to the government in Lhasa.

M. C. Gardner

The only odd group in the Whitman Canon were those poems that were added to editions after his death, by executor Horace Traubel: "Old Age Echoes."

Margareta Elisabeth Roos

Her daughter with Irving, Margareta Charlotta Irving, married the vicar of Bro, Nils Larsson Sundell, and Roos spent much of her old age with her daughter and son-in-law.

Martin Wilkes Heron

In his old age, Wilkes lived at 4950 McPherson Ave, in a St. Louis neighborhood now known as the Central West End.

Memoirs of Hadrian

Trajan, in old age, begins an unsuccessful military campaign in Parthia after his successes over Dacia and Sarmatia.

Mentor

In his old age Mentor was a friend of Odysseus who placed Mentor and Odysseus' foster-brother Eumaeus in charge of his son Telemachus, and of Odysseus' palace, when Odysseus left for the Trojan War.

Mesropavan

Also there are remains of numerous old-age buildings and a monastery, where Mesrop Mashtots preached, build in 456 AD.

Peter Flora

In addition, comparative projects were developed and organized for selected types of welfare state activities, such as Old Age and Old Age Protection (Jürgen Kohl) and Families and Family Policies (Peter Flora, Alfred J. Kahn, Sheila B. Kamerman).

Peter McLeod

McLeod began his racing career in 1980 at the relatively old age of 32, progressing immediately into touring car racing where in just three seasons to become one of Australia's fastest privately entered touring car racers, and usually had the fastest Mazda RX-7's behind Allan Moffat's factory supported team (though with reportedly more horsepower than Moffat's cars).

Pøbel

One series, for example, portrays superheroes such as Superman and Batman in decrepit old age.

Princess Augusta of Cambridge

After her mother's death in 1889, the Grand Duchess acquired a house in London's Buckingham Gate area, where she spent a portion of the year until advanced old age made it impossible for her to travel abroad.

Redstreak

Thomas Knight's Pomona Herefordiensis (1811), noted that "trees of the Red-streak can now no longer be propagated; and the fruit, like the trees, is affected by the debilitated old age of the variety, and has in a very considerable degree, survived those qualities to which it was owing its former fame".

Retraining of Racehorses

RoR is the official charity for the welfare of horses who have retired from racing through injury, old age or a lack of ability.

Richard Chenevix Trench

George W. E. Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age:He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket.

Rudolf Otto

Others to acknowledge Otto were, for instance, Karl Barth, Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, John A. Sanford, Richard Rohr, Hans-Georg Gadamer (critical in his youth, respectful in his old age), Max Scheler, Ernst Jünger, Joseph Needham and Hans Jonas.

Sedgefield by-election, 2007

Norman Scarth stood as an independent "anti crime" candidate, having previously contested Chesterfield in 1997 as an "independent old age pensioner".

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century

Beth knows that Holmes survived and actually lived to a ripe old age, and further knows that his corpse is preserved in a glass-walled, honey-filled coffin in the basement of New Scotland Yard (this may be both a reference to the legend that Alexander the Great's body was preserved in honey, which does not rot, and also to the fact that, as stated in the original stories by Doyle, Holmes became a beekeeper once he retired).

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

The play opens with Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his old age, recalling the memories of his friend, Henry.

Thomas Firmin

To Robert Frampton, the nonjuring bishop of Gloucester, Firmin remarked, ‘I hope you will not be a nonconformist in your old age.’ Frampton retorted that Firmin himself was ‘a nonconformist to all Christendom besides a few lowsy sectarys in Poland.’ On the Protestant exodus from Ireland in 1688–9 Firmin was the principal commissioner for the relief of the refugees; more than £56,000 went through his hands, and eight of the Protestant hierarchy of Ireland addressed to him a joint letter of thanks.

Tip Htila

According to Maurice Collis, who met her in her old age, "in her day she must have been rash, magnificent, as bold as a lion".

Trial of Socrates

I. F. Stone, an American journalist, wrote a book entitled "Trial of Socrates" after his retirement, arguing that Socrates wanted to be sentenced to death in order to justify his opposition to the Athenian democracy, and that Socrates felt that old age would be unpleasant anyway.

Vipin Handa

Handa has been absent from the media for a long time, and was last seen on Dastak, a television show where he presented the problems of the unfortunate such as rape victims, child sex workers and those suffering from medical negligence and old age.

William Seres

In his old age he assigned his business for a yearly rental to Henry Denham who became a member of the Stationers' Company in 1560.

Yaqu'b Mor Anthonios

He is also serving as manager of St. George's PUC College, Nellyady, St. Antony’s, Udane, Jeppu St. Antony’s, Honnavar Higher Elementary School, Davengere Higher Primary school and the Director of St. Antony’s Orphanage, Honnavar, Brahmavar, Melegre’s church, Snehalaya old-age Home, Brahmavar Afa-Omega Retreat Centre.

Z. elegans

Zinnia elegans, the common zinnia or youth-and-old-age, a flowering plant species