Where voluntary euthanasia has been introduced, the scope has increased swiftly from those with terminal illnesses and only months to live, to young people with depression, disabled babies, and even those whose doctors decide that their quality of life warrants euthanasia. the UK Parliament has resisted changing our law three times, yet Baroness Meacher, chair of Dignity with Dying, is pushing again for change through the House of Lords.
The most important aspect of dementia care is helping to hold intact the identity of the person with dementia (Kitwood, 2010) As the disease progresses it can seem that the person has changed and is not recognisable as who he/she used to be. But changed behaviour does not mean that the person has disappeared.
Many older people say they prefer to stay at home even though lock-down is ending. But we are made in God’s image for relationship, and isolation is not good for us
Having to pay by app on a smartphone in pubs and cafes discriminates against older people who don’t have them says Age UK
Jesus had yet to present Himself to God the Father after He rose from the dead – yet He paused to reassure a broken hearted woman M
Reflecting is better than remembering because it changes our perspective on loss and grief and helps us find comfort in gratitude.
Older workers have lost more in the pandemic than the young, yet concerns are raised only for the latter.
Give pensioners emergency telephone numbers to call. An elderly pensioner driven by fear and desperation in lock-down strangles his wife. But a listening ear might have prevented the disaster.
Being a glass half empty sort is a drag and can take years off your life. But you can change how you think about life!
Capt Sir Tom’s legacy is more than the £32 million he raised walking laps around his garden at the age of 99 with his zimmer frame: he showed that whatever your age you can encourage others.
We need patience as we wait for the vaccine roll-out, and the pandemic to end. A Seminary in California has found a way of helping students develop it.
Even at our weakest, most helpless times, our spirits are safely held by God’s Holy spirit.
Covid is causing the biggest rise in mental illness since World War II. Here’s what we can do to help ourselves, and others.
Never mind the quality – see the length says celebrity cook, saying that vaccinations should be given to the young, not to the elderly who are most at risk. She has had a good life, so that’s alright then.
Because of Covid, many people will be spending Christmas Day alone. But there are things they can do to make it a blessing.
A psychiatrist and a daughter give reasons why older people are needed to balance our culture.
In the depths of dementia, Prima Ballerina Marta C. González is transported back to the role she played in Swan Lake, and steps, momentarily, through the fog to her real self.
Remembrance Sunday honours sacrifices made by ordinary people in the war – and makes us think of the sacrifices being made in the current war on the invisible enemy, the coronavirus.
A spontaneous poem from the Holy Spirit about the storm after the calm, (Mark 4: 35-41) the terror before the storm and the terror after when you realise Who is in the boat with you.
When we stop talking to God the Holy Spirit takes over for us.
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