What is Equity Release?
While recent political developments haven’t helped the housing market, even sweeping political changes will be unlikely to trigger a dramatic drop in the property market, certainly not to the levels seen in 1992 and 2007.
Care Home Costs
Examining the specifics and working out exactly how that expenditure breaks down can be helpful in understanding the costs of running a care home, and everything that goes into providing award-winning elderly and assisted living care.
What Is Assisted Living?
What is assisted living? Here in the UK assisted living does more or less what it says on the tin: an individual moves into a self-contained residence such as a flat or bungalow, and is cared for by staff who are available 24 hours a day.
Why Retirement Is the Perfect Time to Plot Your Family Tree
Hobbies and pastimes are crucial to a “successful” retirement. Whatever your interests, keeping the mind and body occupied is not only useful for extending quality of life but also for coping with the sudden lack of purpose many feel when they leave work.
The Age of Ageing
We are often told, in the context of a country or even a city, that we have an ageing population. Setting aside the fact that this is technically true of every population (nobody’s ever got younger with the passage of time, after all!), a more accurate description would be that we have an ageing species.
Meeting the Nutritional and Lifestyle Challenges of Dysphagia
We take our residents’ food requirements very seriously, and spend a great deal of time gaining better knowledge of individuals’ likes and dislikes as well as their dietary requirements.
How to make Moving in to a Care Home Easier
Moving house can be difficult at any age, just as big changes in life generally can be. It needn’t always be this way, however. Moving into a care home can be emotional and testing event in getting older, but with our few simple tips, it can be alleviated considerably. Here’s how to make moving into a care home easier for all.
Care Homes for Couples
At Signature we understand that couples who have been together for many years want to stay living together for as long as they possibly can.
The Importance of Learning New Skills in Later Life
While learning is most stereotypically associated with the image of the young student mastering the skills which will carry them through life, learning in older age may be even more beneficial to our brains and more rewarding in terms of the richness it can bring to our day-to-day.
Best UK Holiday Destinations for Older People
Retirement for many people means more opportunity to travel and see the world. However as time goes on this may become more difficult for one reason and another.