Joint Ache Remedies One method is to use more gentle exercise forms like yoga and pilates, (which is illustrated on the video above.) As we age many of us suffer from aching joints, even chronic pain in the joints. It is common for us as we age to experience some joint pain. Arthritis Research UK […]
Getting The Facts On Money In Retirement It sure does,whatever age you are. We were reading some tips for the over 50’s the other day and thought of you dear readers. So we thought we’d share some of the most useful. First of all you can now retire when you want to. However you won’t […]
Keeping the spark alive Is there an age when you no longer have sexual desires? The answer is no. Just because you’re older doesn’t mean that your desires should stop. Almost to prove a point, AGE UK published information from a study they carried out with more than 2,000 older people. According to this survey […]
We’ve reported many aids and treatments for various conditions afflicting physical or mental conditions especially as we age. Fortunately the solutions, whether due to an alternative remedy or due to technology keep popping up too. Leg Wraps For Strokes – All Wrapped Up One of the latest to grace our media was the reports about […]
Growing old is only skin-deep! As we grow older there are many changes we have to face. These might be restricted mobility, loss of hearing and even impaired sight.But probably the first thing we notice is fine lines starting to appear, how we look and the nature of our skin. Essentially our bodies start aging […]
Preventing Elderly Social Isolation And Staying Socially Connected A study which ran for a year up until March 2012 has found that social isolation is not good for us. We could probably have told the researchers that without the study. Social isolation isn’t the same as loneliness. After all you can feel lonely even when […]
We recently commented on how many more pensioners there were in Japan (percentage of population) than here. And on how that figure would increase by 2050. In April we came across an article in The Japan Times, which confirmed that last year was a record high in the number of pensioners or over 60s that […]
Age keeps featuring in the news; whether it’s that too many are living too long for the country to support, to the disgrace of the lack of older women on our TV screens. Yes it seems with improved medical care we are living much longer than we used to. In the UK our average life […]
Last spring AGE UK’s My Friends Online Week raised awareness of those of pension age who could and who wanted to access the internet. For many pensioners, computers weren’t the norm in their daily working life or they worked in a manual job where computers weren’t used. This doesn’t necessarily refer to younger pensioners who […]
Are older women less visible with age? Earlier this year the International Longevity Centre here in the UK published a report about the plight of older women. It came out in time for International Women’s Day on March 8th – a little recognised ‘special day’ in the UK. On the continent of Europe it is […]