With several flights of stairs between them and their polling precincts, some elderly Makati citizens and their companions could not help but be rankled by the voting process in San Antonio village on Monday.
Lucilla Vallarta Yncierto refuses to be weighed down by problems. Instead, she keeps a pleasant disposition, which, her relatives say, is her secret to long life.
A 75-year-old Japanese man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him, an official said Tuesday.
A robbery syndicate operating in Cagayan is believed to have been dismantled after four of its suspected members, who are mother-and-son and father-and-daughter pairs, were arrested following a car chase on the Dugo-San Vicente Road here on Saturday.
An 83-year-old pension house owner was found murdered in Bacolod City early Monday morning.
The oldest known woman in Europe, French national Marie-Therese Bardet, died Friday days after celebrating her 114th birthday, her retirement home in the western village of Pontchateau said.
A 74-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her 17-year-old grandson.
A 97-year-old retired Australian dentist was to receive his masters degree in clinical science on Friday in what Southern Cross University said could make him the world’s oldest new graduate.
An elderly couple and their teenage grandson were killed, while two others were injured in a pre-dawn fire that hit their home in Mandaluyong City Thursday, police said.
True to his name, a barangay chair allegedly shot to death early yesterday his erstwhile trusted man and wounded two other persons, including an octogenarian woman, in an argument over disrespecting the elderly in Manila.
A councilor is pushing to exempt senior citizens living in Quezon City from the vehicle number-coding scheme of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.
A Manila city councilor is seeking to enshrine in local law the simple courtesy of giving way to the elderly, the disabled and pregnant women.
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7) played Santa and distributed gifts to 72 elderly men housed inside the “Gasa sa Gugma” compound run by the Missionaries of Charity yesterday.
