Tag Archives: isolation

The travails of the elderly shopper

The travails of the elderly shopper

Automated checkout machines put off about a quarter of older people from going shopping, a survey from a housing charity for the elderly suggests. They can find the automated checkouts “intimidating” ...
Putting something back

Putting something back

When people stop work, due to retirement, redundancy, or just because they feel like what is nowadays called a ‘career break’, they often take up voluntary work, stating that their motivation for this ...
50 million hours of festive goodwill

50 million hours of festive goodwill

Excessive consumerism in the long run up to Christmas (some retailers began the hard sell of Christmas merchandise as early as October!) can make it all too easy to forget that Christmas is not just a ...
Difficult conversations

Difficult conversations

I suspect that you will all have seen, read or heard about the interview that Prince Harry gave to The Daily Telegraph earlier this year about his failure, for more than 20 years, to adequately deal w ...