Term Archives

  1. What Seniors Can Expect as Their New Normal in a Post-Vaccine World - August 3, 2020

    The article discusses how the elderly are uniquely vulnerable because their immune systems tend to deteriorate with age, it also provides an insight into what would be the new normal in the post-vaccine world.
  2. Vietnam’s Ageing Challenge: Getting Old Before Getting Rich - 15 June, 2020

    As Vietnam experiences economic growth, it faces both the problem of ageing population and falling birth rates.
  3. Why the future of elder care may be fewer nursing homes - August 31, 2020

    The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the often-obscured lives of Americans in nursing homes, and the industry that runs them.
  4. Age, gender and culture 'predict loneliness' - May 27, 2020

    Young people in 'individualistic' societies report higher levels of loneliness, according to a large-scale global study.
  5. Reading Comprehension: Exercise 2

    The debate about western eating habits and the relative merits of vegetarianism versus a traditional omnivorous diet have been discussed endlessly. But the issues are far more wide-ranging than the typical ‘Meat is Murder’ headline.
  6. Reading Comprehension: Exercise 1

    We want to solve problems today, such as homelessness, poverty and street crime. However, this is a long and complicated process, because we just do not have the resources to do everything.
  7. Reading Comprehension: Exercise 3

    More than a matchstick man I’m trudging along a busy road in Salford, past small industrial sites, scraps of buddleia-choked wasteland, and the entrances to crouching, cul-de-sac council estates.