At Time to Shine we see and read a lot of interesting stories and resources about older people. We share a few of these with you each month.
Here’s the latest selection:
- How satellite technology is to be used to fight loneliness in Yorkshire (YEP)
- Groundhog day as report highlights that Government continues to fail to meet the challenges and realise the opportunities of ageing (International Longevity Centre UK)
- How to make websites age-friendly (UserZoom)
- How every day objects can improve quality of life for people with dementia (Guardian)
- Assume all young people are ageist? Think again (Ladders)
- As I grow old I will march not shuffle (Brian Bilston’s poetry laboetry)
- Age positive image library launched to tackle negative stereotypes of later life (Centre for Ageing Better)
- Older people may need more support in this lockdown (i)
- Getting old: the conversations we need to have about getting older (Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio4)
- Fear about ageing and old age: the root of negative attitudes towards older people (Sam Woolfe)
- Value of volunteering by older people equivalent to EU spend on defence (The Rooftop)
- Do we have to age? (Guardian)
- PCC says sexism and elder abuse should be hate crime (Warrington Guardian)
- I was bad (Michael Rosen blogspot)
- Christmas lunch is cancelled – but it’s the human touch that we older people crave (Guardian)
- 32 years of covering social care, and older people are still neglected (Guardian)
- The age of wisdom: why our elders were the best of us in 2020 (Guardian)
- Major new report to reveal unfairness and myths for older people who fund their own social care (University of Birmingham)
- Leeds voluntary groups praised for helping older people during coronavirus pandemic (YEP)
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