We hear stories about these home-bound, over-age young adults spending their days on the couch, rent-free, unemployed, and seemingly un-motivated to do otherwise.
The age of pupils can be another determining factor: under-age pupils are more likely to repeat a grade, while over-age pupils tend to leave school early.
All the Olympic squads are restricted to players born on or after 1 January 1981, with each of the 16 finalists permitted three 'over-age' players in an 18-man squad.
This looks set to be in the form of an exclusively under-21 England side - a change Fifa is expected to make from the current under-23 (plus three over-age players) rule.
In this latest work, the authors discuss the need for protected space to pilot these initiatives, and how targeting this effort at over-age, under-credited students is an ideal place to do so especially because these students need a fresh approach that emphasizes their success, not their failure.
Zuckerberg may seem like an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing.
Its director, John O'Doherty, is also worried about the increase in HIV in the over-45 age group.
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But cardiologists still think many more people--perhaps all 60 million Americans over age 55--should be taking a statin, be it Lipitor or competing drugs such as Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, or Pravachol from Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
The FDA had been poised to allow over-the-counter sales with no age limits when Sebelius took the unprecedented step of overruling the agency.
This is troubling news for America, where the over-65 share of the voting-age population will rise from 17% now to 26% in 2030.
With our longer lives, two-thirds of people over age 65 will need some kind of long-term care, and many of us aren't prepared for it.
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But we do think that the public response to his self-control shows how poorly Stoic qualities can go over in our times: a philosophy built on emotional control seems strange in the age of over-sharing.
Indeed, everyone over age 55--some 60 million people in the U.S.--would benefit from statins, argues Nicholas Wald, an epidemiologist at the University of London.
Because handedness has a genetic component the researchers wondered why the proportion of left-handers should have remained so constant over 30, 000 years - the age of the oldest cave studied.
Muscle cramps are most common in people over age 65, affecting more than two-thirds of that age-group.
The Spanish have proved especially feeble, with ministers twice proposing and then swiftly backtracking on reforms, once over a rise in the legal pension age, and once over public-sector pay cuts.
Even is this day and age of over-sharing, the concept of privacy, however lofty, still exists.
Pill-using women over the age of 30 cut their risk of miscarriage from 28% to 7%, according to that study.
"The formula is you can only play one player over the age of 31 - we've played three, maybe four, this year, " commented Hoggard.
The figures, from the Department for Education (DfE), for those over school age (19- to 24-year olds) are down on 2011 but higher than they were two years ago.
Tokyo has 1.5 million people over the age of 65 - representing 13% of the population - but ranks well below the national average in almost every indicator of elderly care.
Transport and General Workers Union national officer, Brendan Gold, acknowledged that BA had made concessions but stressed that clear differences still existed - especially over the retirement age for cabin crew.
Of its 5, 800 permanent residents, half are now over 65 years of age - making it a kind of living laboratory not just for Japan but for other countries with rapidly aging populations.
His advisers insist that Mr Obama is too clever to usher in a new age of over-regulation, that he will stop such nonsense getting out of Congress, that he is a political chameleon who would move to the centre in Washington.
Although slightly lower than Pew Research's figures, Forrester deduced from its nigh 60, 000-strong survey that 19 percent of 'mericans over the age of 18 own at least one tablet -- double the number the research outfit noted last year.
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Two-thirds of women over age 65 rely on Social Security as their primary source of income.
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Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.
When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
Greg Ward, of the council's economic development unit, thinks investors had been put off by the city's high employment rate, which stood at just over 80% of the working-age population in 2008.
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