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President Donald Trump urged governors to build up their own supply of the bedside ventilators which are needed to keep victims alive as the Chinese-originating epidemic floods their lungs, the New York Times reported.

The federal government is directing nursing homes to shut down visitors amid the coronavirus epidemic, President Trump said March 13.

An Italian mayor has fallen under scrutiny for stating that patients who cannot be treated for the coronavirus “are left to die.” A doctor at a hospital in Italy’s northern region, however, has stated that “you probably don’t proceed” with patients “between 80 and 95” with serious breathing difficulties.

The director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said most people will not get seriously ill from coronavirus.

Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once suggested denying cancer treatment to elderly Americans as a solution to overcrowding in hospitals. 

Two senior ladies have formed a special friendship thanks to a volunteer program in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. 

The value of the elderly is not only in the past, Pope Francis said Friday, because they are also “the present and future of the Church.”

Pope Francis told senior workers Monday that the world’s future rests on a dialogue between young and old, while urging the elderly to engage in volunteer work to as a remedy for loneliness.

A 95-year-old piano connoisseur with arthritis was surprised with a private piano concert from the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s pianist on Monday thanks to the generosity of family and community.

A couple in Austin, Texas, recently broke the Guinness World Record as the “Oldest Married Couple.” 

An elderly man is still recovering after two teenagers allegedly attacked him outside a library in Queens, New York, on October 10.

John Major has told young people that Brexit was a “colossal mistake” and that he hopes one day they will force the UK to rejoin the EU.

A suspect brutally sucker-punched an elderly woman while she was walking down a sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York, on September 19. 

Rodney Smith Jr., 29, of Huntsville, Alabama, wrapped up his nationwide yard work tour in Hawaii on Thursday.

The Brazilian government is receiving an average of 102 abuse allegations against elderly people every day, according to a report published Wednesday by the country’s Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights.

A 91-year-old Swedish man has been convicted of hate speech in the municipality of Bromölla after making disparaging comments about Islam and Muslims online.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is pressing an investigation into severe — and ultimately deadly — patient neglect at a nursing facility.

A Minnesota teen allegedly used his bare hands to rip out his 74-year-old relative’s eyes and teeth with his bare hands on Friday.

An Arizona man was charged Sunday with slitting his grandmother’s throat because, police say, he no longer wanted to care for her because she had dementia.

A Japanese nurse confessed to police this week that she killed as many as 20 patients while working at a hospital in Yokohama, claiming that she wanted to avoid explaining the deaths to families so ensured that poison drips would kill the person when she was not on duty.

One man is making it his quest to mow lawns for those in need across all 50 states free of charge and inspire others to do the same.

An eight-year-old boy in Georgia halted traffic to ensure that an elderly woman struggling with a walker could make it up the stairs, according to a video of the encounter.

Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria have reportedly resorted to using senior men pretending to be feeble as suicide bombers, according to the country’s military, which describes the move as a possible change in tactics in carrying out attacks on soft targets.

An elderly man in Pennsylvania dedicated to being by his wife’s side in her hour of need called the police to help him get to the hospital last week.

An illegal alien accused of murdering an elderly woman could “possibly” be a serial killer and involved with multiple other deaths of elderly people in the Dallas, Texas area, a report states.

Inmates on California’s death row are growing elderly in prison with executions on hold due to “legal challenges” to the protocol surrounding lethal injection.

An Ethiopian immigrant who was working as a Certified Nursing Assistant in Portland, Oregon is behind bars, charged with rape, unlawful sexual penetration and other sexual contact with patients who were 87 and 94 years old.

Thieves have been targeting elderly people across New York City in a string of unrelated robberies.

Police arrested a fugitive disguised as an elderly man after he had been on the run for several months in Massachusetts.

Japan’s strict immigration laws have made it an oasis from Islamic terrorism, with a whopping 99 percent of Muslim refugee petition requests rejected. This has not immunized it from mass murder in general, however, as the latest massacre at a facility for the disabled proves.

On February 22, 71-year-old Tony Pitts fired three rounds at an alleged home intruder, striking the suspect twice in the chest.

A 23-year-old former nursing home worker has confessed to the murder of three of the facility’s residents, a gruesome crime that is shedding light on rampant abuse of elders in Japan’s overpopulated nursing homes.

A New Jersey teenager has turned himself in to police after video of a vicious attack on an elderly man sent police on a manhunt for the perpetrators.

An elderly Georgia woman froze to death only yards away from where her wheelchair-bound husband had fallen out of his chair, authorities said. The two were both incapacitated and unable to help each other.

A healthy woman has ended her life at a suicide clinic in Switzerland rather than face old age. A palliative care nurse during her working life, she had previously said that she thought old people were “a burden on society”

An elderly, blind man’s decapitated body was found just after noon on Thursday in his Inglewood, California home, a woman identifying herself as his cousin said.