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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, according to a new study. German researchers said older people tend to be portrayed negatively in society. Although they are often described as wise, they are also be shown as being slow and forgetful. "Living in a youth centered culture ...

Beetle Bailey is getting closer to retirement age, but the lazy Army private won't be getting a rest anytime soon from his tour of duty on newspaper comics pages. The popular wise guy who appears in 1,800 newspapers turns 60 ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson has apologized for a recent e-mail comment in which he compared Social Security to "a milk cow with 310 million tits." Some critics want the former Wyoming senator removed from President Barack Obama's bipartisan deficit commission because of ...

City halls around Japan have been forced to admit having thousands of centenarians registered as alive who may in fact be dead, including a man born in 1840 at the time of the First Opium War. They were forced into the embarrassing admission after a visit by officials to a man thought to be 111 led to the discovery of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The co-chairman of a commission on the U.S. budget deficit came under fire on Wednesday after an off-color remark that likened the payment of government retirement benefits to milking cows. Women's groups and some lawmakers called for the resignation of Alan Simpson, a Republican who serves on the bipartisan deficit panel created by President Barack Obama ...

There comes a time in all of our lives when the roles reverse. Suddenly, we are no longer the child and the parenting skills we’ve so carefully honed with our own kids now need to be turned toward our aging parents. It can be one of the most emotionally trying times of your life, especially if you don’t ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - A Japanese media frenzy over missing centenarians has cast a spotlight on the isolation and loneliness potentially faced by millions of elderly as the government struggles to cope with a rapidly graying population. The panic - and guilt - was sparked by the discovery that a man believed Tokyo's oldest male at 111 had actually been dead for ...

Wanted: licensed caregiver, to provide full-time, at-home care for elderly parents guaranteed to balk over a complete stranger invading the privacy of their home. Indeed, who ever thought their home would double as a caregiver's workplace? People 65 or older — our fastest growing population segment — increasingly are being persuaded, cajoled and otherwise prevailed upon by their children to open ...

Japan prides itself on the world's longest life expectancy but is struggling with a disturbing footnote to that statistic — revelations that hundreds of people listed as its oldest citizens are either long dead or haven't been heard from for decades. The mystery of the missing ...

Nearly 200 Japanese centenarians are missing, officials said Thursday, with the total likely to rise amid a nationwide search after the discovery of the 30-year-old corpse of a man registered as aged 111. In the western city of Kobe alone, the whereabouts of 105 out of 847 centenarians were unknown as of the end of July, a city official said ...