Futuris travels to Ireland to see how a new robot could transform elderly care.

Scientists developed a global reference tool for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's.

You're old, you live alone, maybe you lose your glasses a lot. So what do you need? Meet Zacharias the protoype robot.

At the World Masters Games in Auckland, New Zealand, 101-year-old Man Kaur won the 100 metre race in the 100-years-plus category.

How robots can improve the quality of life of elderly people living alone at their homes

The tide has definitely turned against Europe’s population – making it increasingly ‘grey’.

Greek police fired tear gas and pepper spray at pensioners during an anti-austerity protest in which some of the elderly demonstrators tried to tip over a riot police bus blocking a road to the prime

Senior citizens aged 75 and over are entitled to free prescription drugs in Poland from September 1 under a new law.

Bolivian believers gathered on the outskirts of the capital La Paz on Monday (August 15) to take part in an annual religious celebration, that includes the breaking of river rocks to ask the Virgin of

A proposal by Germany's Bundesbank to raise the national retirement age to 69 by 2060 has sparked heated debate in the country.

A couple from Northern India, who are in their 70s, have reportedly become parents for the first time. The mother, Daljinder Kaur, who says she is

Poland is facing an uncertain future as its population ages and so putting pressure on workers, the economy and the healthcare system. Living through

What is one of the hardest jobs of all? Caring, because you have to put your heart into it, all the time. Life is tough for carers with careers. Public policy appears to be slow to realise its importa

A 91-year-old Australian man has been charged with smuggling over a million euros worth of cocaine hidden in soap. Dr Victor Twartz said he had been

As age creeps up on us all new technologies are helping to keep the elderly safe and give peace of mind to adult children who may not always be

A 102-year-old German woman is thought to be the world’s oldest to receive a doctorate. Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport was not allowed to defend her