10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS

Here are 10 interesting facts about senior citizens:

Compared with their peers, senior center participants have higher levels of health, social interaction, and life satisfaction and lower levels of income.  Senior citizens are the fastest growing demographic on Facebook. Research studies done by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 53% of Americans who are the ages of 65 or older are online and 34% of those numbers are on Facebook and similar social sites.

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NIGERIA: OLDER PEOPLE OFTEN AN INVISIBLE CASUALTY IN CONFLICT WITH BOKO HARAM

Older people have suffered in unique ways from the conflict that has raged for almost a decade in Northeast Nigeria, with many starved or slaughtered in their homes or left to languish and die in squalid, unlawful military detention, Amnesty International said in a new report today.

“When Boko Haram has invaded towns and villages, older men and women have often been among the last to flee, leaving them particularly exposed to the armed group’s brutality and repression – amounting to war crimes and likely crimes against humanity. This has included torture, being forced to witness killings and abductions of their children, as well as looting resulting in extreme food insecurity,” said Joanne Mariner, Director of Crisis Response at Amnesty International

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