Nursing nightmare
Community nurses have been drafted into key roles across hospital wards – with pressure mounting due to the winter weather. District nurses and non-clinical staff, who normally work in schools o ...
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Final call for Age UK’s Digital Champion
Actress June Whitfield joined Age UK in a nationwide search to find the Charity’s Digital Champion of the Year for 2015, with the aim of inspiring the 4.8 million older people who have never been onli ...
This week in History
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...
Chronic loneliness threatens 1 in 10 older people
Around a million (10%) older people are termed ‘chronically lonely’ at any given time in the UK, seriously increasing their risk of suffering mental and physical illness, according to a new report fro ...