More is known about preventing dementia than ever before. It includes taking care of mental health.
Hospice UK wants us to talk more about dying and death, as part of its flagship awareness campaign. But we need to look beyond death, to what God has prepared for us.
World’s leading expert on palliative care describes how people not contributing to society in Canada are caught in the crosshairs of a predatory euthanasia programme.
Church pastoral workers standing in the gap as 3 million women and 300,000 men are forced into providing unpaid care.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, carers in not-for-profit residential care homes were better motivated than those in the private sector, says a new report by Warwick Business Schools, showing that motivation makes a huge difference.
Pastor Andy Wilcock and his wife Anne-Marie run Brain & soul Boosting sessions in their church, Hampden View in Sheffield. They are popular with people from other churches, who come to join in. Pastor Andy has sent in a brilliant new session they’ve produced on the rainbow in the story of Noah’s Ark.
A mobile phone company wanted younger, more dynamic men than the current sales manager, and one line manager said he didn’t want a team of bald-headed men like him – the firm ended up having to pay £71,000 compensation for ageism and discrimination.
Trying to persuade older employees that they’ve made a mistake in retiring early isn’t going to work for the government, but diving deeper into the reason for it will.
The Protestant Church tends to overlook Mary, the mother of Jesus, at Christmas time. But she sacrificed much for us, from the danger of stoning to the approbrium of her community in agreeing with the angel Gabriel.
When children put on Nativity Play for Bethany care home residents, joy lights up like a star!
Churches’ work to individuals and communities is worth over £40 bn a year :let the government help with building repairs and keep their working going.
Thousands of residents in care homes died when elderly patients with Covid were discharged from hospitals into them, yet despite the evidence that segregation prevents the spread of infection, residents’ charities are challenging the practice in a Debate in Parliament.
The Governor of Tennessee has declared Friday, 30th September, as a day of prayer and fasting for God’s guidance and forgiveness. If the results equal those at Dunkirk after George VI called Britain to prayer in the Second World War, Tennessee has a great future!
It felt like a family bereavement, hearing the news of the Queen’s death: part of our lives gone forever.
Listening to music gives your brain a total workout, activating most regions including those involved in well-being, learning, cognitive function, quality of life, and happiness.
Funding for social care is a vexed topic, especially when an older person’s home has to be sold to be for their care. Kirsty Allsopp, TV presenter, questions whether it is right for working families to expect the State to pay for their parents’ care so they can inherit the value of their homes when they pass on.
A substance found in sea squirts renewed the brains of aged mice. The lead Professor was so impressed he now takes a supplement each day.
New cases of dementia are falling, and if the decline continues by 2040 there will be 15 million fewer cases. This is happening without drugs, and is down to the power of friendship and life style changes
We need a little stress in our lives simply to keep us going. But chronic, high levels of stress are dangerous to our physical and mental wellbeing.
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