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:

• Friend of TTS Joyce Williams in conversation on the Listening Project (audio, BBCRadio4)
• Dementia sufferers are “dying of loneliness” (Yorkshire Evening Post)
• EU Green Paper on ageing (Age Platform Europe)
• NHS and social care blueprint launched to create services ‘fit for the future’ (i)
• … 40 year self-portrait project finds virtue and loss in ageing (Dazed)
• Restart essential care home visits… relatives demand (Guardian)
• Posties could be used to check in on elderly and deliver prescriptions (Mirror)
• Healthy ageing: how health inequality can be tackled at the local level (The Knowledge Exchange)
• ‘Witch’ tweets reflects society’s fear of older women, says Mary Beard (Guardian)
• Netflix’s ‘The Dig’ accused of ‘ageism’… (Independent)
• Not recommending AstraZeneca vaccine for the elderly risks the lives of the most vulnerable (The Conversation)
• Is it time for older people to have a seat in the cabinet? (Retire Easy)
• Survey highlights high levels of perceived ageism at work (HR News)
• The rhetoric of burden and boomer (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
• Lockdown and dementia: for some Covid-19 has created an isolated, confusing but calmer world (the Conversation)
• Why has Britain suffered more than 100,000 Covid deaths? (Guardian)
• Demands for ‘Minister for Elderly’ in wake of mounting coronavirus death toll (Mirror)
• Protecting older people against domestic abuse (Baroness Greengrass)
• It’s a sweet relief to be vaccinated – but it’s not a return to normality (Guardian)
• Concerted government effort could improve health in old age (UK Parliament)

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