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.
Ah yes, lots of you. And I’m in there too. For me, getting off to sleep is easy. It’s staying asleep that’s the difficult bit. And then getting back to sleep. Broken sleep started with small children, continued through eldercare, and it’s still with me. Yet, as many of you may have found, health professionals […]
Read more
Here’s our regular round-up of news and reports around the health, wealth and well-being of our ageing population and the people who care for them. Health Voice-assisted technology is in the news. The NHS has teamed up with Amazon to make NHS Choices advice available through the Alexa voice-enabled system. Would this way of symptom […]
Read more
Many of the services we need for our ageing family and friends should be delivered by their local authority. A new report looks at why social care directors are finding their desire to deliver good service is tied to budget constraints, and what they’re doing about it. What’s the problem? The charitable body, The Association […]
Read more
Here’s this week’s roundup of news and developments that affect our older family and friends: Lack of dental care available to care homes Care home good practice guide released Dental access crisis in Wales Virtual GP firms pushed to open real surgeries GP practices working together to offer vulnerable patients more time Leading NHS expert […]
Read more
Download it all here!
Downloads
Are you finding caring for ageing relatives a challenge? Our life coach and eldercare specialist Dr Lesley Trenner offers free, anonymous advice in her regular column.
Find out more about Lesley.
Email Lesley
Sign up for our regular newsletter to receive:
Our latest helpful articles
Valuable news and insights on eldercare in the UK
Tips on caring from experts and those who have been there before
