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“And at age seventy-two, Chaplain, you are probably a very likely candidate for what we label late-life depression,” said the qualified medical man.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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Owners said the monkeys -- which one woman called her "late-life child" -- do everything with them, including going on vacations.
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It would take a full generation to completely migrate from relying on Medicare to saving for late-life care; from Medicaid for the disadvantaged to catastrophic insurance and subsidized savings accounts.
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Over the years, though, the estimated prevalence figure for complicated grief has dropped from that high of 33 percent to about 20 percent in 2001, and is now hovering at around 10 percent of cases of the most commonly experienced kind of loss, late-life widowhood from natural causes.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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It would take a full generation to completely migrate from relying on Medicare to saving for late-life care; from Medicaid for the disadvantaged to catastrophic insurance and subsidized savings accounts.
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Regular exercise in college predicted late-life mental health better than it did physical health.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Mid- to late-life divorce can cripple a business started during the marriage and owned by one spouse, because the other spouse is generally entitled to a share, Mr. Landers says.
The 'Splitting' Headaches of Late-Life Divorce Kelly Greene 2011
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Presumably Hacker dealt with that and its late-life cousin -- early retirement -- in his study.
Shifty Statistics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The 200 is an update of the lackluster Sebring, giving it a late-life freshening significant enough to warrant a name change.
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Pell maps the damage in this memoir of her overprivileged childhood on Long Island, her work with the Black Panthers in San Francisco, and her late-life success as a world-class marathon runner.
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