Irwin likes the finer things in life. He is chauffeured around town, likes to wear a suit and sleeps in a comfortable bed. Trouble is, Irwin’s a kangaroo.
The one-year-old great red kangaroo has free reign of owner Christie Carr’s home.
Weighing 11kg (25lb), he is dressed in human...
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Besse Cooper has officially been named as the oldest person in the world, having reached the ripe old age of 114.
Guinness World Records officially named the great-great-grandmother as the person who has lived the longest, following the death of Eunice G Sanborn earlier this year.
The...
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This was sent to me by one of our moderators Celestra, who has been on the site for some time. CANHR is the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.
CANHR, as an advocacy organization, and like many other sociological studies and investigations of nursing homes in the US, have found that...
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Courtesy N2Care The MEDCottage is a free-standing spare room in your backyard.
Of all the elderly people he's visited, the Rev. Kenneth Dupin remembers a woman named Katie in particular.
Katie had a houseful of treasured memorabilia, and she loved to regale him with stories of Washington...
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