The Importance of Connectedness in Later Life
Human minds are not built to work in isolation, but specialised over millions of years to function as connected nodes in a network of humanity.
Later Life Insights
What Is Elderly Wellbeing?
There’s a very good reason why the phrase “wellbeing” is so open-ended. It’s because it’s all relative, really. One person’s requirements and needs for a fulfilling lifestyle are not the same as the next person’s.
What Is Respite Care?
The idea of respite care has been around for literally hundreds if not thousands of years, since the earliest days of planned and community-coordinated caregiving.
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.
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.