99 year old War Veteran reflects ahead of Anzac Day: “I joined up as a boy and came back a man”.

In the hustle and bustle of daily life – with spouses, children, friends, pets, work and hobbies – the modern person appears to have very little time to spare. And while trying to juggle everything, the people who are most likely to be “left behind” are their elderly parents. “In the pursuit of happiness, getting... Read More

One of the most distressing aspects of caring for someone living with dementia can be when they become highly selective about what they will eat or refuse to eat anything at all. Recently, a family from the English city of Liverpool faced a worrying dilemma when McDonald’s restaurants in the UK announced that they would... Read More

This morning, in my email inbox, I found that two people who know of my interest in ageing issues had sent me a link to the same article, one that had just appeared in the online Guardian: The salt-and-pepper pound: where are all the fiftysomething models? | Fashion | The Guardian In it, the very articulate British-based... Read More