CEBU, Philippines — A centenarian from southern Cebu received P100,000 in financial assistance from the Cebu Provincial Government. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia personally handed over the check to ...

It’s a question I’ve often been asked since recently celebrating my 100th birthday and outliving most of my doctors and close friends. Unfortunately for the people asking, it’s a question I ...

It’s a question I’ve often been asked since recently celebrating my 100th birthday and outliving most of my doctors and close friends. Unfortunately for the people asking, it’s a question I ...

The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) is tasked to implement the Centenarians Act and the Expanded Centenarians Act starting January 2025. Under the Centenarians Act of 2016 or Republic ...

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. led Wednesday the inaugural distribution of cash gifts to qualified beneficiaries of the Expanded Centenarians Act of 2024. The ceremonial distribution of ...

The Philippines formally recognizes this remarkable milestone through Republic Act No. 10868 (the Centenarians Act of 2016). This act honors all Filipinos, both at home and abroad, who reach the ...

“The future is here,” the email announced. Hilda Jaffe, then 88, was letting her children know she planned to sell the family home in Verona, New Jersey. She’d decided to begin life anew ...

Her advice to others is to "be the best person you can be and do the best that you can do." PETERSBURG — Virginia has a new centenarian. Esther Barnes Sykes celebrated her 100th birthday with family ...

A scientist who has studied centenarians for more than 20 years shared four things she does to live a long, healthy life. Stacy Andersen, a behavioral neuroscientist at Boston University Chobanian ...

Voters over a hundred years old will be removed from the voting registry if they are not receiving a pension, the interior ministry said on Friday, explaining that an amendment to the law ...

Before her death, the centenarian held an old pillow cover in her hand which she used when she got married in 1940, said her family, the Shanghai Morning Post reported. Du was three years older ...

A "cheeky" centenarian has celebrated her 105th birthday with a rapper-led rave and open bar at her care home. Hilda Jackson swapped her Zimmer frame for glowsticks and UV paint after a DJ hosted ...