old age

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The team then tracked how the numbers of these cells changed as the mice moved from young adulthood to middle age and then to old age.

From Science Daily

In solitary old age, Ondro has finally accepted his sorrowful calling as the memory keeper of the men who died.

From The Wall Street Journal

The researchers suggested that including modest amounts of animal-source foods may help prevent undernutrition and loss of lean muscle mass in very old age, compared with strictly plant-based diets.

From Science Daily

There is no potion I know of for curing old age.

From Literature

The widely circulated photographs of the poet in old age make him a perfect visual counterpart to the widowed Queen Victoria, dressed in her perpetual mourning.

From The Wall Street Journal