Thousands of Scots face decades of poverty in retirement. More than four out of ten questioned by Scottish Widows admitted they hadn...

10,000 over-75s in Scotland will spend Christmas Day alone because their children are too busy to visit them, a new report claimed today. A...

A study found almost half of elderly people may be kept on sedatives that make them “easier and more convenient to manage” for much longer ...

160,000 pensioners in Scotland are living in relative poverty – with an income of less than 60 per cent of the national average. Prices f...

A person born today will be forced to work until they are 77 years old before they become eligible for a state pension, according to a new ...

Elderly patients in care homes across Scotland are being prescribed powerful drug...

Someone born today may have to work until they are 80, a leading insurer has warned. John Lawson , head of pension policy at Standard Life, ...

Older patients are “not safe” on hospital wards in Scotland because of a lack of qualified nurses to care for them according to Royal Colleg...

New York City's Department for the Ageing, which runs more than 300 community centres for ageing residents and provides services such as...

Just how society treats our elderly is becoming cruelly more and more apparent . We had this report , a 108 year old woman having to wait a ...