Rubbish hero
A super-citizen has taken litter picking to extreme lengths and has already collected almost 300 bags of rubbish this year. Father-of-two Malcolm Walls, 56, picks up everything from dirty nappies to e ...
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Comprehensive Spending Review “sticking plaster” on social care won’t work
Britain’s biggest pensioners’ organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has warned today’s Comprehensive Spending Review announcement on social care will do nothing to halt the collapse o ...
Numbers of older people dying over winter highest this century
New figures released by the ONS today show that over the winter of 2014/15 there were a staggering 40,800 excess winter deaths among the over 65s from cold-related illness such as heart attacks and st ...
What will you give someone with dementia this Christmas?
A few months ago a message was posted on Facebook asking whether anyone could make a card to help people with dementia. Several people responded, offering to make a standardised card such as the busin ...