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In a 2015 study published in Age and Ageing, 37% of men and women age 65 and older admitted to the emergency room presented with dehydration. Researchers found that, across the board, the patients ...
2.7 million people in Ukraine (6% [1]) were reported having a disability in 2014. [2] This number did not include the (reportedly) 1.5% of people with temporary disabilities. [2] In 2014, 35% of people aged 60–70 had some age-related disability. For people aged over 80 years, this number grew to 50%. [2] Ukraine is notoriously "disability ...
2.7 million people in Ukraine (6% [11]) were reported as having a disability in 2014. [12] This number did not include the (reportedly) 1.5% of people with temporary disabilities. [12] In 2014, 35% of people aged 60–70 had some age-related disability. For people aged over 80 years, this number grew to 50%. [12]
Elderly men and women, some well past retirement age, are getting ready to fight on either side of the separatist conflict in Ukraine as tensions ratchet higher by the day. Fighting between ...
Mykola Soloviov, 88, is a painter the world does not know. Disabled since a 2017 stroke, he spends his days bedridden in an apartment in Sloviansk, a city 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the front ...
Chronic dehydration, such as from physically demanding jobs or decreased thirst, can lead to chronic kidney disease. [51] Elderly people with dehydration are at higher risk of confusion, urinary tract infections, falls, and even delayed wound healing. [52] In children with mild to moderate dehydration, oral hydration is adequate for a full ...
The attack to the care house in Stara Krasnianka took place on 11 March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.On 7 March the Ukrainian armed forces occupied a care house in the village of Stara Krasnianka [ru; uk], near Kreminna, Luhansk region, establishing a firing position and reportedly leaving the patients unevacuated due to the presence of mines.
Photojournalist Paula Bronstein went behind the lines of the war in Ukraine, turning her lens on the plight of the elderly.