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Elderly care is a priority and a challenge in modern life. The nuclear family setup poses various obstacles to taking care of our aging parents and grandparents. However, the rise of new gadgets and technologies promises new solutions to elderly care. The Aid by Lithuanian designer Egle Ugintaite is a case in point. The Aid is something of a new age [...]

Any type of flu virus ‘can be dangerous for a pregnant woman, but swine flu appears to be especially threatening.’ It was discovered and ascertained that pregnant women are vulnerable to swine flu. The illness can be especially dangerous ‘in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, both for mother and baby.’ That is why pregnant women are [...]

Those over 65 years of age will comprise 14 percent of world population, according to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau, published on July 2009. By statistical projection and extrapolation, the number of people of the age group in the world will double by 2040, from 506 million in 2008 to 1.3 billion people. In the next ten years, and for the first [...]