To mark the launch of this year’s Cold Homes Week (1–5 February 2016), Age UK is warning that the lack of a sustainable solution to the UK’s cold homes epidemic risks undermining the health and wellbe ...
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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 ...
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Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) plans to highlight the scale of winter deaths among the country’s older population by releasing black balloons on the ...
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Excess winter deaths among the over-65s fell by a dramatic 50 per cent following the introduction of the winter fuel payment, according to ground-breaking new research by the charity Age UK. The new r ...
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