Now a young elder in the community, Mr. Naiyomah, 25, told the others of huge fires in buildings that stretched high into the clouds, and of men with special gear who entered the structures to save lives.
Our guide, Muriwai Ihakara, is a Maori storyteller, oral historian, and, as he put it, tribal "yelder" (i.e. a young elder), and on the way, he explained what we might expect at the wharenui, or "big meeting house," a traditional hand-built structure with elaborately carved and painted beams and wall panels of matting.
He was a very young elder statesman".
Host Ben Stiller called Stewart "America's young elder statesman of political comedy" and surmised that on his Comedy Central sendup of the news, Stewart "can't take sides". "Oh," said Stewart.
The younger elders go door to door or talk to people in the subways and on the streets in search of converts.
They began their new job, which Mr. Gold calls "a spiritual high adventure," in August, as volunteers helping maintain 48 apartments rented by the younger "elders," the name used to refer to all acting male missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving an area from Chinatown to Kingston, N.Y., and from Monticello, N.Y., to Danbury, Conn.
Comparative data analysis on family dynamics and living arrangements of the elderly, males vs. females, younger elders vs. oldest old, rural vs. urban, and 1982 vs. 1990 are presented.
This research examines the association of religious participation with mortality using a longitudinal data set collected from 9,017 oldest-old aged 85+ and 6,956 younger elders aged 65 to 84 in China in 2002 and 2005 and hazard models.
Parenting can happen from people who are younger; elders can be childish.
Are centenarians necessarily frailer than younger elders?
