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.
Embedded values in the Loma Linda University Hospital staff make it outstanding in terms of care and medical expertise. In contrast, Judith Wood writes of the agonising experience of her brother in law in an NHS hospital.
Airlifted to hospital with traumatic brain injury and more, after a hit and run driver knocked him off his motorbike, Easter was a time of coming back to life for Vince.
We forget things all our lives, but after the age of 50 worry that forgetting may be a sign of dementia. There has been a rise in cases of Mild Cognitive Impairment, but this is reversible and avoidable and not necessarily the start of dementia.
Bombarded with fearful news every day that promises worst tomorrow – how can we deal with our fear? We can do as the Scriptures say, and bring every thought captive to Christ.
A letter from Ukraine from David Bute, the English Pastor and entrepreneur who has been building businesses and the Kingdom of God there for over two decades.
Helping elderly relatives can be difficult, especially when they want to maintain their independence, including those living with dementia, so a light bulb that sees and monitors is a boon.
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