A special appeal
“They’ve survived hard times before, but we mustn’t forget the older victims of the East Africa crisis” Saleh Saeed, CEO of the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), reports on the situation for older p ...
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Social care crisis
A recent report from the charity Age UK concludes that we are living on borrowed time in saving social care for older people from complete collapse. The report, ‘The Health and Care of Older People in ...
Fixing our broken housing market
On 7th February 2017 the Government issued a White Paper which included a suggestion made by Housing Minister Gavin Barwell that making it easier for older people to downsize could help solve the hous ...
Weight loss in later life not a normal part of ageing
A new study from The Malnutrition Task Force has found over five million (36%) people aged 60 and over in the UK think it’s perfectly normal to lose weight as you get older. Over 12 million (75%) say ...