Homeless men are aging on the streets
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So where does he go, this aging veteran, now that his legs and kidneys don't work and everything he owns fits inside the pair of pajama pants tied to his wheelchair?
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Weight loss in elderly men appears to be a harbinger of dementia and contributes to their increasing frailty, researchers said on Monday.
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These guys are down, but are they out?
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As its Olympic Games approach, the plight of  many of the country's retired sports stars, uneducated and impoverished, is drawing attention
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An estimated 3,800 people under age 24 go homeless each night in New York City, but they blend in so well they are hard for social workers to find, according to the city's first-ever census of homeless youth.
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A group of book-scavenging homeless men are regulars at the Strand, helping the cityâs best-known used-book store keep its shelves stocked.
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Every Wednesday the men come to see Gary Isler. Like him, they are recovering addicts and ex-convicts. Unlike him, they are living with "the sauce," "the alphabets." HIV.
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The number of Japanese homeless is on the rise, and cultural attitudes about age are exacerbating the situation.
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These guys are doing what they can, but it just isn't enough.
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In Lakewood, N.J., the homeless hunker down in three encampments. Connecting them is a minister who travels around in a bus delivering propane and heating stoves.
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All of the people killed, and many of the thousands left homeless, by this weekâs earthquake in Japan were older than 65, reflecting the rising vulnerability of one of the worldâs most rapidly aging societies.
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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More than 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States are war veterans, although they represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.
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Safety experts suspect older motorcycle riders with a lot of disposable income are buying more machines than their aging, out-of-practice bodies can handle.
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ALERE, Uganda -- Kasmiro Bongonyinge remembers sitting up suddenly in his bed. It was just after sunrise on a summer morning two years ago, and the old man, 87 years old and blind, knew something was wrong.
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With more than 220,000 people still homeless, some evacuees congregated on the high ground of a cemetery.
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MACHIAS, Maine - A 54-year-old homeless man who routinely complained of fake chest pains to avoid paying the tab for restaurant meals may have gotten his just desserts.  A judge sentenced Elias I. Elias on Friday to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to theft of services.