OlderLivingMatters

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

Older people need to be brought back into society - where they can be protected. New 'hate' laws would underline their marginal stat

Criticising bad care is good for Good Carers. Poor care is bad for everyone

So why on Earth doesn't she just go to see them? Who would abandon a baby to this fate?

Do not be put off by figures showing that five people called out ambulances more than 8,000 in one yea.

Can she really say no to an elderly lady, when she won't get any other holiday?

Caroline feels the rest of the family despise her and view her as boring

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

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

Wiltshire Farm Foods meal - 'actively nasty'

What can you do, if Aunty or your parents refuse to come for Christmas? You can't make them come, can you?

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

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

The Consultant did not mention dementia.

Always be mindful, you never know the minute....a time will come when you will miss this

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

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

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

There was a marked difference in price

You need to be cynical when it comes to care. A camera can set your mind at rest - or provide the evidence