About 500,000 vulnerable old people in England rely on carers coming in and helping them each day. Sometimes their carers are the only people they
Waiting for my new phone contract to print out, I noticed three men coming into the store, obviously from the same family – they looked
Council cuts £10 a day care plan, so now Grandma becomes a ‘bed blocker’ costing the NHS £2,000 a week Grandmother Mary Delf has become trapped
‘Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Speak out … to defend the needy and the poor,’ says
‘I never thought that I would attend a conference on issues of old age and dementia, and come away feeling so full of joy.’ ‘We’d
‘It’s fantastic news! Most people in their sixties will not be old in the conventional sense any more.’ Ross Altmann, a Government adviser on older
It’s often more effective than drugs. It cuts the risk of breast cancer by 25% and the risk of bowel cancer by 45%. It can
Japan gave the world the Walkman, Samsung phones and a host of hi-tech innovation. Now a small Japanese community went back to basics to beat
How will you avoid loneliness in your old age? It might be the most important thing you could plan for, more than your pension, perhaps.
131,401 people, aged between 18 to 95, were studied by Professor Nicolas Danchin’s team between January 2001 and December 2008 at the Paris IPC Preventive Medicine
‘Are older people in care homes missing out on quality time with staff because workers are preoccupied with paperwork?’ is the lead in question in
At 90 years old, she’s probably the oldest Primary School pupil in the world! She’s class Prefect, and her six great, great grandchildren, pupils in
Multi-tasking – keeping all those plates spinning – is damaging our brains. We’re not as smart as we think we are when we do this:
Living in the North of a country could increase the risk of developing dementia, scientists at the University of Edinburgh found recently. Their research has shown
When someone has dementia, the person remains. However changed the behaviour, however different the person seems to be, the essence of the person remains. (Stokes[i]
In the week of December 8-14, 440,428 people walked through the doors of A&E departments in England. In the equivalent week in 2011, that figure
Next Friday Peers are to debate Lord Falconer’s ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill – euphemism for ‘assisted suicide’, or death by doctor. Christian Concern is organising a rally
If you forget where you put your car keys when you’re 30, you don’t give it a second thought. Everyone forgets things. But if you
I met two Welsh versions at the gym this morning. Both in their sixties, they were so toned and shapely they looked a good thirty
Raise a glass to Ember Inns! Each one of its pubs is allocating a table on Christmas Day to lonely older people from the local
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