Sentences with phrase «percent of elderly people»

One study, by the researcher Agneta Grimby at the University of Goteborg, found that over 80 percent of elderly people experience hallucinations associated with their dead partner one month after bereavement, as if their perception had yet to catch up with the knowledge of their beloved's passing.

Thirty percent of elderly persons (both male and female) have elevated homocysteine levels.

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That makes inflation even more painful for seniors, since 22 percent of elderly married couples and about 47 percent of elderly unmarried people count on Social Security benefits for 90 percent or more of their income.

More than a quarter (27 percent) of the doctors said they would kill an elderly person «with medical grounds for suffering but in the absence of severe physical or psychiatric disease.»

Even more startling, 18 percent disclosed that they could «conceive of» euthanizing an elderly person who was simply «tired of living, without medical grounds for suffering.»

About 880,000 New Yorkers, or 10 percent of the work force, make up to $ 8.50 an hour washing dishes and clothes, flipping and serving burgers, selling shoes and jeans, cleaning homes and offices, milking cows and picking crops and taking care of sick and elderly people in their own homes.

Nearly 8,000 senior citizens would be affected in Upper Manhattan should the centers close, according to Rodriguez, who emphasized that nearly 25 percent of households in his district house at least one elderly person, many of whom live below the poverty line.

However, of the 1,300 elderly people examined in that study, 29 percent had a risky version of the factor H gene but didn't have macular degeneration.

In the Saudi outbreak, 65 percent of the 23 people confirmed to have caught the virus died; most were elderly and had other health problems.

A record number of elderly people are completing living wills to guide end - of - life medical treatments — up from 47 percent in 2000 to 72 percent in 2010 — according to new research from the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

A recent study found that older individuals have up to 130 percent more endothelin - 1 in their blood than do younger people.8 That suggests that in the elderly, insulin may not be able to overcome elevated levels of the powerful vasoconstrictor ET - 1.

According to the researchers, despite the well - documented advantages of exercise, most elderly people spend 80 percent of their time in sedentary activities.

According to the Employment Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of Americans have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement — often because many people have little knowledge of how to invest in retirement plans wisely — which could lead to more elderly citizens on welfare.