A project that encourages older people to keep hens is helping reduce social isolation and improving well-being.
The Equal Arts initiative, HenPower has been rolled out in Gateshead and the surrounding areas and is working to reduce loneliness in older people and help... Read more
Working in partnership with Age UK, an easy to use has been designed and created to meet the needs of older people using technology – calling itself Breezie.
Breezie has been made for older people experiencing the internet and touch screen technology for the first... Read more
The charity Create has only been going just over a decade and in that time it has managed to change the lives of thousands of older and vulnerable people.
It has done this by putting on workshops led by professional musicians, dancers, writers, artists and playwrights... Read more
Author Atul Gawande explores the way society deals with death and ageing in in his book ‘Being Mortal’, highlighting that some doctors fail frail older people by using medicine to treat illnesses, at the expense of a person's quality of life.
Although he lives and... Read more
Text messaging has been found to prevent one in six patients from forgetting to take their prescribed medicine.
The study carried out by researchers at Queen Mary University in London, explored whether text messaging improved the use of blood pressure and cholesterol... Read more
There are 10 million people within the UK suffering from hearing loss, of those, more than 6 million are over 65 whilst the rest are working age and a further 800,000 are deaf, according to Action on Hearing Loss.
A recent survey ‘Listen Up Britain’ commissioned by a... Read more
Talking about bereavement remains a taboo for many people in Britain, according to a new study.
The research published by the Dying Matters Coalition revealed 47 per cent of people in Britain feel uncomfortable talking to someone if they have been recently bereaved.... Read more
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