Shanidar 1, an older Neandertal from about 50,000 years ago, suffered multiple injuries and other degenerations, became deaf, and must have relied on the help of others to avoid prey and survive well into his 40s, indicates a research. 
He sustained a serious blow to the side of the face, fractures and the eventual amputation of the right arm at the elbow, and injuries to the right leg, as well as a systematic degenerative condition.
The Neandertal remains were discovered in 1957 during excavations at Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan by Ralph Solecki, an American archeologist and professor emeritus at Columbia University.
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