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

In the early 1990s, doctor and geriatrician Dr Bill Thomas was working in a nursing home when a resident approached him about a rash. She also mentioned that she was lonely. Dr Thomas was able to prescribe a cream for the rash, but when he consulted his Harvard medical books for how to treat loneliness,... Read More

Australia’s ageing population is growing and getting more tech-savvy. The number of Australians aged 65 and over is expected to increase rapidly, from around 2.5 million in 2002 to 6.2 million in 2042. And research has shown that grandparents are the fastest growing demographic on social media. In this technological age, more and more people... Read More

Spending her 100th birthday alone during one of the UK’s lockdowns was not what one British woman had hoped for. However, being thrown an extravagant party to celebrate her 101st birthday went past her wildest expectations.  Read More