Beginning with my first elderly neighbor, Mrs. Miles whose stories took me into worlds I would never know.
He has embarked on an ambitious security offensive, which in addition to the 450-watt light includes new fencing and electric gates at his home and that of his elderly parents, a mile or so away.
In terms of accessibility, the average distance for an elderly patient was 0.9 miles in urban areas but significantly higher at 5.9 miles in rural areas.
When she returns in 12 hours' time she will have made 23 house calls to sick and elderly people, driven 20 miles between appointments and earned £64.80 before tax.
Many say their post offices — Neville's was founded in 1816 — have served as the gathering spot and heart of the town for generations, and that the closings would force residents, many of them elderly, to drive several miles to another post office.
Mr Ersek says he was once told how a money transfer to a regional outlet in rural Africa helped save an elderly mother a 20-mile walk to get the cash she needed to pay her hospital bill.
One person was killed Monday in a fire at an apartment complex for the elderly in Baxter, about 30 miles northeast of Des Moines, officials said.
The director of the Fukujuen elderly care center, just 15 miles from one reactor, he sent his younger employees home as Japan's battle to prevent nuclear catastrophe started, telling them to flee.
On a recent day, a stylish flight attendant showed a viewer around the pretty three-bedroom home she hopes will fetch $150,000; a mile away, an elderly widow held out for an offer of $500,000 for her big, unkempt 1950s house — to be deposited in Spain, please.
I know friends and colleagues going the extra mile for an elderly parent, dealing with the trials and tribulations of aging.
Other awards included the Going the Extra Mile award, given to Douglas Guldeniz for driving an elderly New York couple and their cats 2,500 miles to their new home in Sedona, Ariz.
