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Smoking may erode your problem-solving capacity Smoking may be a risk factor for dementia among the elderly that erodes their problem-solving capacity and self-control and makes them see things which are not there. Girls born to older mums likelier to have breast cancer Women born to mothers aged over 39 years and women who were taller and thinner than the average girl prior to puberty have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. Elderly suffering from care cuts Elderly patients are suffering a "diminished quality of life" because social care funding pressures mean services are being reduced, a powerful committee has warned. MPs also claimed cuts ... Robber of elderly woman released A MAN who cut power to an elderly widow's home and ransacked it while she slept has been released into indigenous alcohol rehabilitation. Corey James Pryor, 31, was initially refused bail on ... Con-artist son leaves elderly mother destitute after wiping out her million-dollar nest-egg Roman Kaziuk didn’t quite sell his own mother – but he did the next worst thing.Capping a criminal record highlighted by 69 fraud convictions, Mr. Kaziuk conned his 88-year-old mother, ... Aged care workers demand 50% pay rise The union representing aged-care workers is in Canberra lobbying the federal government to boost the "poverty wages" being paid to carers by almost 50 per ... World’s Last WWI veteran dies aged 110 Florence Green, the last known service member of World War I, died in King's Lynn, Norfolk, two weeks before her 111th birthday, BBC reported. "She died in her sleep on Saturday night at ...