Dancing shoes
A 93-year-old has danced his way to a national award – for EXERCISE. Ken Williamson takes dance classes three times a week – and waltzed into the top spot in the national competition, whil ...
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Twin-credible
One of the UK’s oldest sets of twins celebrated their 90th birthday and put their longevity down to – TELEPATHY. Devoted sisters Jean Hocknell and Joan Keeling were born an hour and 15 min ...
Campaigners call for new law to safeguard older people’s dignity
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) is calling for a new law to safeguard older people’s dignity when in care. The call coincides with Dignity Action Day ...
Over 4 million older people worried about heating their homes
To mark the launch of this year’s Cold Homes Week (1–5 February 2016), Age UK is warning that the lack of a sustainable solution to the UK’s cold homes epidemic risks undermining the health and wellbe ...