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Younger generations dismiss the contribution they can make, leaving many feeling they are a burden to society or to their relatives. This puts many elderly at risk of getting into a “self-destructive rut”, an Age UK report says. The study suggests 1.47 million pensioners believe they have little control over their lives. As many as […]
A GENERATION of vulnerable pensioners are being sedated with a “chemical cosh” of unnecessary drugs, putting their lives at risk, experts warned last night.
Tens of thousands of elderly people in care homes are being prescribed at least seven different medications and given 10 or more drugs each day. The NHS has announced plans to recruit and send hundreds of pharmacists to check care homes amid fears pensioners are being “kept quiet” under sedation. NHS England chief executive Simon […]
EVEN modest levels of exercise can help stave off heart attacks and strokes among the elderly, new research suggests. Daily Express :: Health Feed
LONELINESS is as dangerous as high blood pressure, diabetes and depression, Britain’s top GP will warn today. Daily Express :: Health Feed
GETTY Loneliness is as dangerous as high blood pressure, diabetes and depression Isolation is prompting millions of OAPs to turn up at doctors’ surgeries simply for someone to talk to. Professor Helen StokesLampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP), will use a keynote speech at its annual conference to say the situation is […]
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said its revised advice that those vulnerable to infection could now safely eat raw or lightly cooked eggs produced under the British Lion Code of Practice followed a thorough review of new scientific evidence. It had previously advised that vulnerable groups should not eat runny eggs because they could contain […]
PREGNANT women, infants and old aged pensioners can now safely eat runny eggs carrying the British Lion mark following new advice from the food safety watchdog almost 30 years after the salmonella crisis. Daily Express :: Health Feed
The poll, that highlights loneliness among older people, found a fifth had lost touch with their relatives, while a tenth heard from their friends or family less than once a month. Many of the 1,000 over 65s in the YouGov poll for Stannah Stairlifts said they rely on mobile phones and the internet to keep […]
