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Regular recall monitoring is essential to safeguard vulnerable consumers, including children, the elderly, and individuals with weakened immune systems.
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Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
When the elderly woman’s identity card expired, the son put on makeup, a wig and her clothes in order to pose as his mother and renew her card – something that must be done in person in Italy, the spokesperson said.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
Those people who weren’t central to the survival of the community—the elderly, the sick, widows, orphans—often disappeared out onto the ice.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Healthy adults that these people knew were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases and cancers that usually afflicted the elderly.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
When the elderly woman’s identity card expired, the son put on makeup, a wig and her clothes in order to pose as his mother and renew her card – something that must be done in person in Italy, the spokesperson said.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025
Those people who weren’t central to the survival of the community—the elderly, the sick, widows, orphans—often disappeared out onto the ice.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Healthy adults that these people knew were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases and cancers that usually afflicted the elderly.
—Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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“The elderly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20elderly. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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