Cliparts and Photos :

Preston Place is a senior retirement community  for the active and independent senior wanting to reside in Plano, Texas.		Elderly illustrations and clipart (fotosearch.com)
	Elderly patient
		(No link)

Vocabulary :

• A pensioner 
  "is a person who has retired, and now collects a pension.
  This is a term typically used in the United Kingdom and Australia where someone
  of pensionable age may also be referred to as an 'old age pensioner', or OAP.
  In the United States, the term retiree is more common."
  (Wikipedia)

Listening :

•  ** Liz : New technologies and old people (1) **
  Langue : Anglais, niveau : B1 - par  Liz (London, England) - 15 avril 2012
  Liz explains why she thinks new technologies could be useful for old people, computers for example.
  http://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?article2399

• ** Liz : New technologies and old people (2) **
  Langue : Anglais, niveau : B1 - par  Liz (London, England) - 15 avril 2012
  She thinks that a good idea would be to have a computer in all retirement homes since old people are capable of learning things.
  It could be some computers adapted to special needs for example.
  http://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?article2400
  
  
• ** Liz : New technologies and old people (3) **
  Langue : Anglais, niveau : B1 - par  Liz (London, England) - 15 avril 2012
  Mobile phones could also be useful for old people, if they weren't so small. Adapted phones would be good.
  http://www.audio-lingua.eu/spip.php?article2401

Conversation Questions :

• Age: Youth & Old Age (iteslj.org)

• Single Life (iteslj.org)

Articles / Facts :

• 

  Old people are rich :
  they have silver in their hair,
  gold in their teeth,
  stones in their kidneys,
  steel in their knees,
  lead in their feet,
  iron in their knuckles,
  sugar in their blood,
  and gas in their stomach.

• Retirees ahead 
  The US community that revolutionised retirement. The original playground for America's elderly.
  "It's the perfect beginning to the end of your life."
  (BBC)

  

• Pensioner used 136 modes of transport in a year
  "Edwin Shackleton, 82, has travelled in a six-wheeled amphibious vehicle, crashed over waves in a lifeboat and cruised in a gypsy caravan as he found 136 ways to make a journey.
  The adrenaline junkie has sailed in a catamaran, lifeboat and sand yacht and flown in a microlight, executive jet and glider.
  He also hitched rides on a bin lorry, fire engine, police car and T-55 tank - before reaching his target of 100 in July by flying in a hot air balloon."
  See The list of 136 modes of transport taken by Mr Shackleton.
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• Retiring To Florida
  (seniorcitizenhumor.blogspot.com)

  

• World's oldest person dies at 115
  "A Portuguese woman who held the title of oldest living person for just five weeks has died at the age of 115"...
  She "never "fell ill, nor took any medication". ..
  "She started working in agriculture at the age of 12 and never went to school. She could not read or write."
  (BBC)

• Internet use 'good for the brain'
  "For middle-aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests."

  

• US bus cleaner retires aged 100 (BBC)

  

Lesson plans :

• Law says visit old relatives or pay a fine (December 31, 2012) - a lesson plan with AUDIO
  "China has passed a new law that says people must visit their older relatives.
  This means older parents or grandparents can sue their kids and grandkids for not visiting them."
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• 01 October is International Day of Older Persons.
  Practise your English while you learn about old age.
  "Take a look at the article, poem, cartoon, word game, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

• World’s oldest person dies aged 115 - a lesson plan
  WARM-UPS : Old age / Changes
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  

• World population aging at record rate - a lesson plan
  WARM-UPS : OLD AGE / AGING POPULATION / GETTING OLD / THE ELDERLY
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

Poems :

• Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. - A poem
  (members.shaw.ca)
  + A page with animations
  (neddy.blogsome.com)

  

Songs :

• When I'm 64 by The Clemmer (YouTube) / The Beatles
  - the lyrics :
  "When I get older losing my hair
  Many years from now
  Will you still be sending me a valentine..."
  
  

• Songs about Age and Ageism (edchange.org)

• Father and Son by Cat Stevens :
  "You're still young...
  Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy."

• Forever Young by Alphaville :
  "forever young, i want to be forever young
  do you really want to live forever, forever and ever...
  sooner or later they all will be gone
  why don't they stay young
  it's so hard to get old without a cause
  i don't want to perish like a fading horse
  youth is like diamonds in the sun..."

Cartoons :

• Old man (byunews.byu.edu)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Investments for my old age (selfhelpmagazine.com)
  
  

Videos :

• 'Computer games keep me mentally active' - 21 January 2013
  "It is predicted that by the end of this year, female gamers will outnumber men for the first time.
  However computer games are also increasingly being seen as a way for older people to keep mentally active.
  Bryony Mackenzie reports."
  (BBC)

• Caltex – An old woman needs some oil (commercial)
  " A grandma gets in a supermarket Caltex. She is making a lot of noise with her trolley.
  The shop assistant, who is very caring, offers her some oil for her to stop the noise… but you realise that it is something else…"
  (kewego.fr)