Number of older workers at record high
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The number of older workers in the   United States is growing faster than any other age group,   making it harder for younger job seekers, a study reported on   Wednesday.
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Retirees for a third straight year are paying double-digit increases for healthcare coverage through their former employers, which are shifting a greater
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A record number of emergency calls were made to the ambulance service over Hogmanay, figures show.
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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The number of people in Scotland diagnosed with HIV rises to the highest quarterly total on record.
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The number and variety of payment plans at continuing care retirement communities has expanded rapidly, along with the number of new facilities.
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Employment in Wales is the highest in three decades but more needs to be done in some areas, a report finds.
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up 400,000 in just eight years, a report reveals. And experts warn the figure could grow to three million sufferers by 2010 as we get older and fatter.
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The number of workers filing new  claims for jobless aid jumped by a much larger-than-expected  69,000 last week to the highest in over two years, government  data on Thursday showed, but the numbers were likely skewed by  the timing of a public holiday.
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By Charlotte Gill  SENIOR savers can earn more than 6pc before tax following the latest moves from Coventry Building Society and Northern Rock.
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Thousands of German workers took part in protests Tuesday against a government plan to raise the retirement age to 67, the country's biggest industrial union said.Comment
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In the past decade, the number of elderly Americans in assisted living has tripled, to nearly one million.
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Working-class people in Britain age far faster than their middle-class counterparts, researchers at a London hospital have said.
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The number of people detained in secure psychiatric wards in England has reached a record high, figures show.
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Cancer survival rates for people 50 to 85 are increasing at a faster rate than for any other age group, but survivors of all ages - including a former New York congresswoman - yesterday said
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A smashing blow is being dealt to thousands of future pensioners by a law that has just been brought into force by the Federal Government.
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Retirements of veteran air traffic controllers have surged beyond government expectations since the Bush administration imposed a contract on their union on Labor Day last year, new data shows.