You may have been watching the beautiful gardens at last week’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and wishing that you could brighten up that patio or even re-plant that window box.  If so, you may be interested to know that there are garden design ideas and gardening aids designed especially to keep older people gardening. Gardening is […]

Did you know that loneliness can be as bad for you as smoking 15 cigarettes a day? New research from the University of York has revealed that loneliness takes a physical as well as a mental toll.  The startling revelation came out of the biggest review of the the subject ever conducted, in which the University undertook a review […]

Making the home safe and more manageable for elderly people is one of the many challenges facing the elderly and their families. What were once family homes made child proof now need to be adapted in a different fashion, perhaps to accommodate changing and reduced physical mobility or due to the onset of mental illness. […]