Having your limbs and body stretched by an external force can dilate blood vessels and improve blood flow, mitigating conditions due to impaired vascular efficiency, and be a help to older people with limited mobility.
The reality of life in the Covid crisis has shifted our values, so we now recognise the value of people like carers, who make a difference in people’s lives.
During the CV-19 lock-down, grandparents and grandchildren are keeping in touch over WhatsApp, Skype and so on, but are missing the human touch, and the hugs. Once lock-down is over, a new study suggests that , dancing with grandma will do more good than they realise.
Withholding forgiveness affects our mental health, especially as we age. Here is how to do it.
Thoughts and hopes as we approach the New Year
How a Holocaust survivor celebrated life by making a Christmas cake
Even the loneliest souls find their worth in Jesus Christ.
It’s often said that 60 is the new 40, but new government statistics say that, categorically, 70 is the new 65. People aged 70 in
How guarding your heart, physically and emotionally, can help prevent dementia
God uses older people’s characters to impact on others’ lives just by being themselves
If you are a slow walker you may need to get a wiggle on, according to research published recently. Seems that elderly people with slower
It was the last thing on my shopping list, a dozen eggs. I’d been around the big store already and my handbasket was full (I
A number of studies have shown that people who go to church tend to live significantly longer than those who don’t. And, according to the lead scientist who led one of the studies, it isn’t simply because church goers have more social support, but because worshippers are flexing spiritual muscles.
The over-50s could be forced to pay more than £300 a year extra National Insurance to help fund a fairer social care system under plans drawn up by senior Tory Damian Green.
This week a national newspaper invited us to find out if we will be living in a pensioner-dominated area within 20 years. Dominated is an emotive word, so I read the article carefully. Does it say that pensioners will be ‘dominating’ the local restaurants or blocking pavements with their walkers, or driving too slowly, or ‘blocking’ beds and A&E units?
It’s become a buzz-word in the NHS. People who have it do better in life than those who don’t. So what is it – this ‘resilience’? In physical objects it means having the ability to spring back into shape; and in people ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.’ But it’s more than that.
Manchester is in the lead when it comes to innovative ideas for older people. It’s strategy is to make life as enjoyable and inclusive for them, and everyone else. It comes up with new ideas and events all the time.One of its latest ideas is the Chat and Natter Table. Its website says*, ‘A Chatter & Natter table is where customers can sit if they are happy to talk to other customers.
Unless you’ve been meditating on a mountain top with no transmission, you’ll know that Wales beat England 21-13 in the Six Nations rugby match last Saturday. Max Boyce probably wrote another song to commemorate it. In the crowd was an 82 year old who’d never been to a rugby match before. (Perhaps she moved into Wales late in life.) She said that meeting the team was wonderful, adding, ‘It will be hard to top that one. I’m 82 years of age and to have something like that happen to you at my age is amazing.’
In his book, ‘Happy Ever After’, behavioural scientist Professor Paul Dolan says that we’ve been ‘lied to’ about what makes us happy. Speaking with Andrew
‘Is it true that doing puzzles or crosswords won’t prevent metal decline’, asked James, talking to me earlier this week on Transworld Radio. (A good,
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