Senior citizen

89-year-old in China scrambles down high-rise exterior to escape locked bedroom

Firefighters urged the woman to remain in place, but she continued moving down the building’s exterior.

 A bedroom.
Ad 120 Gym.

AI-powered gym: A surprising innovation in assisted living in Tel Aviv

Richard Pulley.

Door cam captures 78-year-old delivery man, triggering crowdfunding campaign

 Grindr app is seen on a mobile phone in this photo illustration taken in Shanghai, China March 28, 2019.

Research: Sex a priority for seniors on dating platforms


Former Mossad head Yatom forms Veterans Party

Wants to hold balance of power but won't join Netanyahu-led government

Danny Yatom, leader of the newly formed Veteran's Party.

Jewish Agency constructs new senior housing complex in Tel Aviv

It will be the first new such complex of its kind built in Tel Aviv for the last 40 years.

Building residents with Isaac Herzog, Chairman of The Jewish Agency.

First comprehensive study of the third age in the coronavirus crisis

Residents of the Rubinstein Estates - optimistic and protected from the virus, those who stayed in their homes felt less safe

Residents of Poleg Estate from the Rubinstein Estates, Ilana and Effie Avni

Hillel's Tech Corner: Sensi.ai provides tech solutions for long-term care

The ability to use artificial intelligence to make the lives of millions of senior citizens that much better is yet another example of how technology can be used to do well by doing good.

Sensi.ai

Beit Shemesh senior citizens receive blankets, warm clothing for Hannukah

The winter packages consisted of a warm blanket, emergency lights, a quilt, a portable heater, warm sheets, and a Hanukkah gift package consisting of a menorah and candles.

An elderly Beit Shemesh resident thanks Ten Kavod volunteers for the winter package donation.

Outbreaks in nursing homes worsened by bureaucratic test bungling

"On every tombstone of an elderly person who died from COVID, will it be written that they died due to the Tender Obligation Law?" Committee chairman Ofer Shelah asked.

THERE IS now a broad social realization that the elderly are the main risk group that needs to be protected.

Coronavirus crisis continues to severely impact Israeli seniors

Over 47% of the respondents reported a poor mental state, including loneliness, depression and even feelings that "in the current situation, life has no meaning."

Two elderly women sit on a bench on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 26, 2020.

Coronavirus vaccines: Which Israelis will be jabbed first?

Medical personnel top the list, while children will be ineligible for inoculation

Hadassah-University Medical Center's Prof. Yossi Karko (left) and Hannah Drori, chief of the hospital’s clinical research center, administer Brilife vaccine to a volunteer

Senior citizens learn how to use social media platforms amid pandemic

They’re also discovered that it’s a lot of fun sharing what they’ve found on the Internet.

RICHARD BRANSON poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last year.

300 seniors in capital become homeless

For more than six years, since it became clear to all authorities involved that the seniors’ housing solution at the Diplomat Hotel was reaching its end, meeting followed meeting with no solution.

AN ELDERLY Russian immigrant checks her mail at the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem