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An 81-year-old woman was carjacked while providing food to the homeless on Monday in Redlands, California.

A British court ruled that the government’s move to discharge hospital patients into care homes without testing them for covid was illegal.

Pope Francis urged greater care and respect toward the elderly Wednesday, since they are “the honor of our civilization.”

When first responders in Benton County, Arkansas, were called about an elderly woman who suffered a fall, they were met by an unlikely helper.

A group of surfers are getting a lot of attention after rescuing an elderly man from being dragged out to sea by rushing water in Sydney, Australia.

Pope Francis warned Wednesday of a growing trend to treat elderly people as “waste material” to be discarded rather than as precious members of society.

Officers and a citizen joined forces to save a 70-year-old woman who was trapped beneath an SUV in Newark, Delaware.

A delivery woman allegedly ran over an elderly couple’s groceries and wrote, “f— the police” on the receipt after seeing a pro-police sign.

Two suspects were taken into custody after a 63-year-old woman was allegedly raped and abandoned outside a church in Detroit, Fox 2 reported Monday.

A 63-year-old woman was found beaten following a sexual assault recently in Detroit, and now she is fighting for her life, Fox 2 reported Wednesday.

A man in Macomb County, Michigan, was having a bad day until local police officers pulled him over.

An 80-year-old man was reportedly found dead inside a Staten Island apartment building with the phrase “I touch little girls” written on his body, law enforcement said Tuesday.

A 69-year-old French woman was robbed and raped after two Algerian illegal migrants broke into her home.

Police are looking for a suspect in connection with an attack on a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens that occurred Wednesday.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure package includes eldercare “because having that kind of infrastructure in place is part of what makes it possible for Americans to thrive.”

A 73-year-old man fell victim to an attack in broad daylight in New York City when an assailant shoved him to the ground after punching him in the chest, according video footage of the incident.

An elderly couple in Pennsylvania has been able to enjoy brunch together once again after they both received the coronavirus vaccine.

San Francisco police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of murder following a recent attack on an 84-year-old man in the Anza Vista neighborhood.

Pope Francis announced Sunday the establishment of a new annual Catholic feast day to underscore the importance of grandparents and the elderly in society.

An 84-year-old Swedish man is said to have died of suspected cardiac failure a day after being vaccinated for the coronavirus and the death has been referred for a possible investigation.

A patient allegedly beat another coronavirus patient to death with an oxygen tank last week inside Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California.

AMADORA, Portugal (AP) — Tears well up in Diana Correia’s eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19…

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf says he believes his country has failed to protect the elderly in care homes from the effects of the pandemic.

For the first time since March, Britons may visit their elderly relatives inside care homes — provided they consent to take a test for Chinese coronavirus and prove negative.

A woman in Utah recently recruited social media users to help an elderly man who took a delivery job to earn enough money for home repairs.

Another story has revealed the human cost of lockdown as video footage revealed the moment a great-great-grandmother with dementia living in a care home was told she couldn’t hug her daughter.

Humberside Police arrested a 73-year-old retired nurse who was trying to take her 97-year-old mother out of a care home after being unable to see her for nine months because of coronavirus.

A Kentucky teenager is being praised for going the extra mile recently when he learned an elderly customer at the store where he works was in need.

A 104-year woman locked down in a care home for months has gone viral after filming a message begging to see her family again.

Medical experts are urging the adoption of “focused protection” to replace current coronavirus lockdown policies that, they say, have produced nothing less than “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”

A 15-year-old is being held on a $2 million bond in connection with the alleged rape of a 91-year-old Mississippi woman with dementia.

Manchester is working with artists to “improve LGBT visibility” in elderly people’s homes to encourage residents to ‘come out’ as homosexual or transgender.

Pope Francis appealed to young people Sunday to reach out to the elderly, telling them that “they are your roots!”

An elderly woman in a Swedish nursing home went without eating because none of the carers working that day spoke Swedish well enough.

Pope Francis urged Christians on Monday to treasure the presence of elderly family members and not to discard them like “waste material.”

New York Democrats remain silent on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s original decision to put coronavirus patients in New York nursing homes.