The Age Scotland Helpline has had a spike in calls this week about cold callers offering boilers and prying into older people's finances in the process. There have also been reports of companies...
Monday 16 September 2013
Luminate announces 2013 programme
During October Luminate; Scotland's creative ageing festival, will be hosting an amazing array of performances, events and activities. Dance, drama, music, visual arts and community events and...
Tackling the taboo
As the saying goes you cannot get pregnant when talking about sex and equally you will not die from making a will. Colin Darcy, Age Scotland Enterprise’s Insurance Manager reports. Death and dying are topics we naturally shy away from but … Continue reading →
Older people's fight to stop community home from closure ends with bulldozers
HOPES that a group of elderly residents could stop the closure of their housing complex have been defeated.
When's the right time to retire? | Katharine Whitehorn
We are all living longer, so how sustainable is it for older people to do nothing? So film star Jack Nicholson may be retiring at the age of 76 because his memory is giving out, but any hope that the part in the film Nebraska that he has recently refused might go to Jake, my actor son, is dashed by the news that it is going to Bruce Dern , who is actually 77. So much for the notion that oldies ...
Jessica Fellowes: The awful 'madness' that robbed me of my mum
As a teenager, Jessica Fellowes struggled with her mother's behaviour. Years later she learnt that a rare form of dementia was to blame
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Older folk offered chance to step into great outdoors
Aberdeen City Council is giving care home residents and community groups of older people the chance to get out and about in the garden. 13/09/2013 00:00:00
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