Mature Times - Your letters

I must get out more

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:23:37 +0100

An MT reader goes out on the town and wonders what has happened to the old notion of 'dressing up'.

10 (or possibly more!) things to do when you retire!

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:24:07 +0100

Don’t think of yourself as old – you’re younger now than you’ll ever be. A reader has advice on how best to approach retirement.

Remember our present day heroes

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:43:20 +0100

Very little, if any, publicity has been given to an event that took place at Twickenham Rugby Football on Saturday, 20th September last.

Better to be dead than 'wardenless'?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:27:02 +0100

Without the onsite warden my mother would have been dead for 6-7 hours before I would have found her. How awful would that have been?

Age discrimination at work - outrageous and outdated

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:34:34 +0100

With Rupert Murdoch, George Soros and Warren Buffett all over 76, one has to wonder why 'John Doe' cannot continue doing the accounts at Nestle at the age of 66.

We need a sub-titles campaign

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:11:17 +0100

When the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and other TV companies broadcast via terrestrial, cable or satellite they are regulated by OFCOM and have to comply with subtitling targets laid down by Government. However, once they decide to broadcast by telephone, PC or mobile phone they are unregulated. What they broadcast is entirely up to themselves.

If you're splashing cash abroad, keep your credit card in your pocket

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:22:54 +0100

Taking cash out abroad is never going to be cheap. But the high interest rates applied means that it's advisable never withdraw cash on a credit card either at home or abroad unless it is an absolute emergency, says MT's Debt Doctor Russell Cavanagh.

More on the perils of warden-less accommodation

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:02:19 +0100

How can elderly people be left at risk like this without any apparent means of easily and instantly contacting anyone in an emergency?

Why is Britain penalising its overseas pensioners?

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:16:18 +0100

I am sure that someone has brought up this point, but in case they have not here are my concerns about British pensions - as seen from afar. I live in the USA.

Politicians - you try it first!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:20:03 +0100

I am responding to your invitation in your article ‘A taste of their own medicine’.

I’ve often found that another useful approach is ‘If you think it’s a good idea, why don’t you try it first?’

No country for old men

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:53:47 +0100

Further to your articles regarding older people living alone, especially men, I believe the film "No country for old men" should be renamed: "England- no country for old men." I am, of course, one of the two million loners.

Oh, to be a Channel Islander!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:41:37 +0100

A single person's pension of £167.50 ... housing for £36 a week ... no road tax ... criminals serve their full sentence ...why can't our parliament not take lessons from the Channel Islands?

Do we really need all our MPs?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:13:57 +0100

Now that more and more of our laws are made in Europe, is it not time to consider that we have too many MPs - after all we see daily that Parliament is attended by only a few of our elected representatives.

Piffle, padding? Too right!

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:17:04 +0100

Doris Daly's article on "Piffle, padding & procrastination" echoed exactly my own thoughts on the forests of expensive, highly coloured books and pamphlets full of ideas and theories about matters relating to older people; all too few of which get read by those for whom they are intended. Then of course, there are the well intentioned conferences and seminars where all those publications are brandished.

Choose to retire? We don't have a choice

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:33:08 +0100

Many people have no choice about retiring or not; particularly with the national default retirement age that gives employers, not employees the choice of when to retire. The second misconception is that there is a ‘normal retirement age’. There is no ‘normal’ retirement age. The third is that older people work to earn ‘some extra money’. Many older people must work to earn a living and pay the rising cost of living.