Celebrity Endorsements
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The London street in which I live is a controlled parking zone – which means we pay an annual fee for the privilege of parking outside our own house and we have to buy parking vouchers to enable our visitors to park in the road during the restricted hours.
The retired and students living together ?
Last year, whilst visiting my daughter in the USA, I saw a CBS News item about a retirement community which has a resident young flautist – and when I write ‘resident’, I mean ‘resident’ and not visiting. It seems that Judson Manor retirement community in Cleveland, Ohio, has come up
Thera Pets
Animals have played a big part in my adult life, from my first dog (a collie cross) who sat in my dressing room dispelling all invaders - to my current two dogs (both collies). In between came six cats and another collie. It is hard to imagine our
Should all Care Homes be required to have a House Committee of Volunteers and be not-for-profit?
It is a terrible indictment on the UK that we need a charity called Action on Elder Abuse (http://www.elderabuse.org.uk) – but we do. When it was discovered that councils in Kent, Devon, Southend and Birmingham, think it is perfectly acceptable to accept ‘bids for beds’, we
Right at Home Loughton, Redbridge and Waltham Forest
It gives us great pride to be able to serve the local community that we have grown up in. Coming from a background where the elderly have always been taken care of by their loved ones, it was unworldly to us that some people haven’t got that privilege.Our vision at
Do you take a deep breath before picking up the telephone or crossing the surgery threshold to speak to your GP’s receptionist?
I recently wrote a column for The Telegraph about the attitude of reception staff in GPs’ surgeries. It provoked a huge response - mostly from patients with negative tales to tell! However, an organisation called GP Access (http://gpaccess.uk) sent me a video of its ‘Patient Access
The Horrors of Night terrors and lewy Body`s
As I walked into the front room, I glanced at the clock on the wall, it was 5.15 am and it felt cold. Its usually always warm where we live because of the underfloor heating, but today it was so cold, or at least i thought it was, because i
How to help a loved one feel at home in a care home
You’ve chosen a suitable care home for your loved one but you may still be feeling anxious about moving in day and it’s likely that your loved one will be feeling the same. We understand that it can be stressful for everyone involved but there is lots you can do
TO JAB OR NOT TO JAB?
As the weather becomes more like winter, people begin to focus on the flu jab reminder – which some GPs have sent out to their qualifying patients. I had my last flu jab six years ago - the year breast cancer hit me and left me feeling vulnerable on all
Reflections on a winters night
As the clocks turned back an hour and the nights are now darker, last night we went down to the Harbour of Torquay to say Goodbye to the HUGE wheel (Similar to London eye) we have over the summer months as she took her last passengers high to look across a great vista all