Calling abuse of older people 'hate crime' risks making things so much worse
Older people are people. They are us. If we are serious about stopping such crime, we need to ask why they are such easy targets and do some
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Apr 25, 2018
- 3 min
Older people need to be part of society. New 'hate' laws risk further alienating elderly -
Older people need to be brought back into society - where they can be protected. New 'hate' laws would underline their marginal stat
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Apr 18, 2018
- 1 min
Pretending Bad Care doesn't exist will not help the many Good Carers - Forum
Criticising bad care is good for Good Carers. Poor care is bad for everyone
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Mar 16, 2018
- 2 min
If care professionals see me, they won't help my parents...an everyday dilemma for the sandwich
So why on Earth doesn't she just go to see them? Who would abandon a baby to this fate?
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Mar 7, 2018
- 2 min
Don't be afraid to call an ambulance for an ageing parent in trouble - they need it
Do not be put off by figures showing that five people called out ambulances more than 8,000 in one yea.
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 31, 2018
- 1 min
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE MOTHER-IN-LAW ON THE FAMILY HOLIDAY?
Can she really say no to an elderly lady, when she won't get any other holiday?
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 24, 2018
- 1 min
I DIDN'T EXPECT THANKS FOR LOOKING AFTER MUM AND DAD...BUT I'M NOT BORING
Caroline feels the rest of the family despise her and view her as boring
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 22, 2018
- 1 min
I'M OVER 60 AND I'M HIDING FROM MY MOTHER. AN EVERDAY DILEMMA FROM THE 'SANDWICH GENERAT
A reader has been in touch to say that she has spent the weekend hiding from her 89-year old mother. She feels as though she just abandoned a tiny kitten in a dark alley - but so much worse. Join the Conversation - OLM Forum #parents #socialisolation
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Jan 15, 2018
- 1 min
HAVE A LAUGH WITH SOME 'OLD' FRIENDS, AND DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR - OLM FORUM SHARES A TIP.
I'm not doing it because I'm so great. I'm doing it because if it were my Mum and Dad, I would hope someone might befriend them
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Dec 19, 2017
- 2 min
PERFECT MARKS PUTS M&S AHEAD OF RIVALS IN CHRISTMAS TASTE TEST
Wiltshire Farm Foods meal - 'actively nasty'
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
HO HO NO? What if your older relative won't come for Christmas?
What can you do, if Aunty or your parents refuse to come for Christmas? You can't make them come, can you?
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Sally
- Dec 8, 2017
- 1 min
'Losing Someone' to dementia: Sally's blog uses some poetic license
I recently read this poem about losing a loved one by Henry Scott Holland. It seemed really pertinent to apply this to the feeling that we have 'lost someone', when they are diagnosed with dementia. (I have adapted it slightly, so please grant me poetic license) Dementia is nothing at all. I have only moved out to a place not far away I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
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Sally
- Nov 27, 2017
- 3 min
'I wouldn't bother' - Try to keep a dry eye while Sally remembers her Dad, 93, before de
I have called this ‘I wouldn’t bother’, because this was something my Dad said an awful lot, when he didn’t want a fuss. And I know now that he would not want to make a fuss about his dementia either. Who would have thought that something like dementia would hit the most intelligent and intellectual man on the planet, my Dad. My Dad, who was humorously nicknamed ‘the Oracle’, since when he spoke, he always had the right answer for everything. But, suddenly, he did not know
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 23, 2017
- 2 min
A wife’s standpoint – how it all began……..
The Consultant did not mention dementia.
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 20, 2017
- 4 min
Things I wish someone had told me: Sally's fantastic new blog
Always be mindful, you never know the minute....a time will come when you will miss this
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
Why does everything have to be so hard? A reader asks OLM Forum
No one has told them what help they could get - in terms of benefits or transport or even a blue badge...they trundle along unnoticed, never
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Nov 7, 2017
- 1 min
Did you say you are fed up with rotten care homes, disgusted by attitudes to older people and angry
Whenever I talk to an older person or someone who cares for older people they have a lot to say - an awful lot to say - on all sorts of subjects. Sometimes they just want to tell their story while someone listens. Sometimes they are angry or upset. Sometimes they want to share a problem or they want answers or to give answers. Most of the time, they feel as though they are alone. But they are not. OLM's Forum is back to offer a platform, a community, an outlet - a friend. Tel
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Oct 4, 2017
- 3 min
A Reluctant Daughter's Diary
Had they any idea how long it takes older people to be ready for visitors in the morning? They would have to sleep in the sitting room, full
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Sep 27, 2017
- 3 min
Price, peas and persistent salesmen: How my parents finally got a stair lift
There was a marked difference in price
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Sarah Whitebloom
- Aug 16, 2017
- 1 min
Lights, camera, action?
You need to be cynical when it comes to care. A camera can set your mind at rest - or provide the evidence
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