An innovative Munich start-up employs pensioners to bake old-fashioned, traditional cakes. It offers them the opportunity to earn money, feel useful and meet people – and their customers, to enjoy cakes baked with love.
A young student has won a competition to live in a senior citizen's home for free. In return for spending time with the residents, she gets free room and board.
Half of Germans are scared of suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, a survey published on Thursday found, making it second only to cancer among the nation's health fears. But neither of them is the nation's biggest killer.
Germans are liable for their parents' old age care even if they have not been in contact for decades, one of the country's top courts ruled on Wednesday.
Young Germans are more optimistic than ever, with a survey on Thursday revealing that 95 percent think they're set up for a good future, despite the fact not that many of them take saving for old age seriously.
Older people who look on the darker side of life tend to live longer than optimists, who in turn face an increased risk of illness and mortality, a new study by a German research institute found on Thursday.
Self-employed workers in Germany are mounting an offensive against a proposed law that would force them to pay at least €350 per month into the public pension system.
