Sunday, 18 August 2013

Police assess whether dementia sufferer is capable of choosing to end his own life

Detectives are assessing whether a British pensioner with dementia has the mental capacity to choose to end his life at a Swiss suicide clinic after officers arrested his wife and son.

    

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Elderly couple taken to hospital following crash

AN elderly couple were taken to hospital following a crash in East Yorkshire in the early hours of Sunday.

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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Wife, 65, arrested over plan to take husband to Dignitas clinic for assisted suicide

A pensioner has been arrested after police suspected she was planning to take her husband to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide.

    

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Pensioner and girl, 15, injured in crashes across region

A man in his 80s was struck by a car along the Bridgnorth Road, in Wollaston, Stourbridge at around 2.50pm yesterday. Police closed off the road for more than two hours and the man was taken to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital after suffering lower back pain, cuts and bruises.

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Any foolish attempt to cut pensions will be attended by the shade of Ernest Blythe

Opinion: Elderly are well organised and get a more sympathetic hearing than do some other groups

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Friday, 16 August 2013

123-year-old Bolivian may be world’s oldest man

The world's oldest person could be living in Bolivia, it has emerged. {DynamicContent:Social Media Buttons}   Birth certificates did not exist when Carmelo Flores Laura was born, but the herder fro...

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Older people invited to make new friends

OLDER people in Darlington are invited to make new friends at an event next week.

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