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I know an old friend who used to tell me that for 60 years he had never known a day’s illness. A splendid healthy old man he was, but about three months ago he took typhoid fever. I went to see him, and when he got better he came to see me. He said, “Well, sir, you see I am not the man I was, but I have…

Elena Griffing has worked at the same San Francisco hospital for 70 years, and says she has no plans to retire. Griffing, who just celebrated her 90th birthday, says she still loves working at the hospital. Though she has held several positions over the years, she says every day on the job is a celebration.…

Doris and Fred Thomson are both 95 years old. The two police officers responding to an emergency from their home expected the worse. There was no real emergency, at least of the kind we normally think about. Fred and Doris just wanted someone to talk to. The British policemen brewed a pot of tea and…

Officials in Brussels, Belgium said there has been a delay in starting repairs to the streets of the city. They said underground tunnels beneath the city are crumbling, and the roadways are in poor shape, and rather than blame bureaucracy, the officials told parliament that problem is mice. During a…

J. I. Packer, the British theologian and author, has macular degeneration, resulting in his inability to read no write. The author of the much loved book, Knowing God, is showing the world that indeed, he does know him. After calling his condition “a clear indication from Headquarters,’ Packer is experienced…

Intelligent design (ID) is the teaching that the world is created and obviously designed by a superior intelligence. Casey Luskin, a program officer with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture talks about the progress ID is making in our culture. “At least five states now require, or…

Recently, the Guinness World Records organization gave 112-year-old Israel Kristal a certificate as the world’s oldest living man. Kristal was born in Poland in 1903, and survived both World Wars and a Nazi Concentration camp. His first wife and two children died in the camp, but Kristal survived and…

Police in England received an interesting emergency call from Fred Thomson and his 95-year-old wife Doris who said they were lonely. Stu Ockwell and Andy Richardson were the officers who responded to the call. “What else could we do but make them a brew of tea and have a chat?” Thomson told the BBC that…

Herman Goldman started working at Capitol Lighting in East Hanover, New Jersey 73 years ago. He is still there four days a week repairing broken light fixtures even though he is 101 years old. Work is a blessing from the Lord. It gives us something to do. Goldman says, “It gives me a reason to get up…

Herman “Hy” Goldman celebrated him 101st birthday by going to work, just like he usually does. Goldman says he is happy to still be working and doesn’t plan to quit after 73 years at the same job. Other than a brief absence to serve in World War II, Goldman has worked at Capital Lighting since 1941.…

During World War II, Dorothy Carlberg exchanged letters with young soldiers. Now, nearly 7 decades later, she received a reply from one of the men she wrote to. Carlberg is 85 and lives in an assisted living center, was the intended recipient of letter written by Al Fragakis, who affectionately called…

Aurelia Mojica’s motto is you have to love and care, nothing more and nothing less. She celebrated 107th her birthday with her family in Lubbock, Texas in September, 2014where she has lived there for more than forty years. She is older than the city which celebrated 106 years in March, 2014. Aurelia…

A study conducted by Kansas University’s gerontology center found that after age 50, people become less likely to sell or donate things they no longer need. The researchers found that among people over 70 years of age, about 30 percent said they had done nothing over the past year to give away belongings.…

In 2013, 85-year-old James Gray couldn’t bear the thought of spending another Christmas alone in his London Flat, so he placed an ad in the Irish Post asking if someone was willing to spend the day with him. The Newspaper in turn, ran a story on his plea and he was received many offers to fulfill his…

A 50-year-old British woman decided 40 years ago, when she was only ten, that she didn’t want to have wrinkles when she grew older. She had been told that smiling would cause laughter lines to develop around her mouth, eyes, and forehead as she aged. She determined to never smile to avoid developing…

As baby boomers begin to reach retirement age their prolific spending patterns are sending many of them into retirement still in debt. “The number of Americans 60 and over in debt is alarming,” according to a report by the AARP’s Public Policy Institute. The study shows that Americans over age 50 carry…

Scientists are starting to unlock the secrets of aging and believe we are on the threshold of greatly lengthened life spans. They are holding out the possibility of 150 years. Some scientists just refuse to accept that death is beyond human control. “It’s such a profoundly sad, lonely feeling that I…

Researchers in California says they have surveyed men aged 50 to 99 and asked them to rank how they feel on a scale of one to ten. The average response was 8.2, not quite what the researchers had expected. The survey was designed to focus on older people who were not predisposed to disability or illness,…

Sometimes very simple things can interfere with our plans. In Brooklyn, two lost kitten stopped the city subway system. Authorities cut power to the B and Q lines for more than an hour after a woman called to report that her kittens were loose in the nation’s largest subway system. The power was turned…

Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

Research into living longer has focused on genetics and lifestyle, but a new factor also appears to play a major role in how long people live. It appears that regular social contact has as much positive effect on a person’s health as blood pressure, obesity, and eating a healthy diet. Two major studies…

For two years, Alf Spence, a 91-year-old British man mailed letters, bills, and postcards by dropping them into what he thought was a mailbox. Unfortunately, his mailbox was a receptacle designated for receiving dog feces. --The Week, September 2, 2011 p. 14 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…

A seventy-five year old woman scavenging for copper to sell as scrap accidentally cut off Internet service to the entire nation of Armenia. Authorities say the woman was digging for metal outside of Tbilisi when her spade damaged the primary fiber-optic cable serving the neighboring country. 3.2 million…

Botox has come into vogue as the premier method of reducing the signs of aging in women. However, a recent study shows that along with paralyzing the facial muscles and reducing the appearance of wrinkles, Botox may also reduce the ability of a person to relate emotionally to other people. Scientists…