Bloomberg Olga Mos was living with her extended family until last year when the 93-year-old found bathing, dressing and cooking too tough to handle solo. Her daughter-in-law Rhoda Wilkinson Domingo looked at assisted living homes. She didn’t like what she saw. “It was just sad,” Domingo said. “Everyone was clean and taken care of, but they looked very dull ...

  Pantai Cahaya Bulan / AFP Shafie Jusoh loves traditional Malaysian kites so much that he can’t get a good night’s rest unless he’s been working on them daily. “I need to make kites everyday, if not I can’t sleep,” the 69-year-old said. He began making them when he was a young boy, skipping classes to entertain his flights of ...

  Bremen / DPA At the age of 78, Roswitha Wahl can do the splits, swing herself onto the parallel bars with ease and do a handstand. Indeed, in the German senior gymnastics championships, the trained nurse regularly comes top in her age group and has “a whole sack of medals.” She started doing gymnastics as a small child and ...