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A letter from L. Green – Volunteering

Reading your articles about loneliness takes me back twenty years to when I took early retirement. I was as nervous as I would be for applying for a job when I approached a relatively new group about ...

markbendle 131 views 0 likes Jul 13, 2019

Potholes in pavements leaving over 65s stuck indoors

Nearly one in three older adults (aged 65+) are prevented from walking more or at all on their local streets because of cracked and uneven pavements. This astonishingly equates to over 3.5 million peo ...

markbendle 509 views 0 likes May 21, 2019

Ageing – the financial impact

It will be no surprise to regular readers of Mature Times that, as a society, we are living longer and as a result the age profile of our population is changing rapidly. According to a recent report p ...

markbendle 1060 views 0 likes Apr 18, 2019

Celebrating perfect companion pets

National Pet Month takes place from 1st April 1 to 6th May, so what better time to celebrate how perfect companions pets can be in later life? Owning and caring for a pet has so many important benefit ...

markbendle 582 views 1 likes Apr 18, 2019