Senior Moment – The silly season
August is officially known in media circles as ‘the silly season’; the time when there isn’t a great deal going on in the news, when many people are on holiday and things generally quieten down. Accor ...
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Is multi-tasking the enemy of listening?
We recently had a reader call to share her response to our series of articles on loneliness in older people. She described how a visit to see her family, instead of providing support and companionship ...
Mobile phones are contributing to a loneliness epidemic
New research reveals modern telephony is contributing to the loneliness epidemic New research from Fuss Free Phones reveals how UK adults feel about elderly relatives’ mobile phone use and communicati ...
Keeping your parents mobile might be as simple as choosing the right ‘phone…
Older people may have not have been the very first to embrace the mobile phone revolution, but huge numbers of them now recognise that they can be a very reassuring emergency tool when going out and a ...