When They Get Older is here to help. We’re sharing tips and experiences to give you support as you support your older relatives. Health and wealth, pastimes and pleasures, challenges and relationships – we talk about them all here.
Many of us have become used to working with multiple screens and enjoy the efficiency benefits. Provider Mobile Pixels has been exploring the possibilities of dual screens to help us keep a discreet eye on remote older family while working. Here are their thoughts, followed by our experience at When They Get Older of setting […]
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Across many workplaces, there is growing recognition that carers make up a significant – and often hidden – part of the workforce, reports the latest survey by Employers for Carers. EfC is a UK organisation providing advice to help employers support carers in the workplace, and aims to influence government and employment policy to create […]
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We’ve seen research looking at how important being able to hear well enough to enjoy conversations, or listening to TV, radio and podcasts, and even just hearing everyday sounds can be to a well-lived older age. Now recent research looking specifically at hearing aids and the mind has suggested that hearing aids may not dramatically […]
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We hear much about silver splitters – couples who reach retirement age and realise that they don’t wish to spend their remaining years together. For some of those splitters, the new future involves a new partner. But while the original couple may have been planning pension provisions for most of their working lives, the change […]
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