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Trust is something we should be able to take for granted, but when trust is abused it can be devastating!!!
- Wednesday, 29 February 2012
In our most recent blog we said that a quarter of a million people aged 66 and above will suffer abuse. Statistics are important, but people remember stories.
In this blog we tell you about Jim, who came to Age Concern Cardiff and the Vale, worried that his landlord had sent him a rent arrears letter.
Why are older people consistently assumed to be entirely lacking in taste?
- Friday, 27 January 2012
It's hardly surprising that so few of us are looking forward to getting old. While most people can appreciate that it's better than the alternative, a lot of the time it's not that much better.
Never before in human history have so many of us lived so long, and we're singularly ill-prepared for this change in the shape of human lives.
Watching the pennies
- Friday, 13 January 2012
There’s an old saying –Watch the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves, or Penny wise, pound foolish.
In these days when many people are struggling with the ever-rising cost of living, we need all the help we can get to make those pennies stretch further.
Food is a basic need of us all and in this area it is possible to make savings, albeit modest ones.
Happy New Year?
- Monday, 09 January 2012
This is a lovely time of year, new beginnings after Christmas and New Year celebrations are over, then we come to the reality of January.
Well we all know the High St stores have great reductions but do we have any money left to buy anything from them? Then we have food prices which soar on a weekly basis, culminating in ridiculous so called price checked items, which obviously seem reasonable for the supermarkets to overcharge you because somebody else does, strange way of thinking. If some other successful supermarket was charging a certain price why not cut yours and make sure you definitely get the business.
We keep being told we live in a ‘nanny state’, personally I think we are being manipulated in so many ways that we lose sight of pricing wars that take place.
Then we come to travel - trains, buses and no doubt airlines are in there too, some just about offering the most basic travel you could comprehend and still intent on finding ways to charge more.
A bag, a visit to the ladies room or maybe you feel like a bit of priority booking, well think again, it has become so expensive that it just isn’t worth it. We all know that pensions don’t increase at the rate of living costs so we do wonder how we are supposed to keep up.
Even if you are employed pay increases are not in line with travel/food increases and supermarkets make profits far in excess of re-investment needs I am sure.
Alongside these increases services do not seem to get better, there never seems to be an excess of staff, in fact on the tube there appears to be a lot less and even then it is hit and miss if you get the help you need.
This may seem a grumpy way of starting a new year but, if each year you start in a negative situation with outgoing increases and compare them with incoming increases it just gets more difficult to remain positive.
by Josie Moore
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