Our weekly news round up covers stories and articles about older people in Scotland and further afield. Read on to see what’s been in the media this week.
Money
- Pensions prompt age old concern – Herald
- Golden age of pensions has ended, warns industry chief – Telegraph
- Pensions cut by £500 a year – Express
Health
- New dementia centre opens in Bearsden – Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
- Fitness fan Ida is 105 and a still doing a workout – Leader Live
- Women blind to cancer risk over age 70 – Scotsman
- Increase in Scottish life expectancy – Scottish Government
- Britain divided by life expectancy – AgeUK
- Blood pressure drugs could halve risk of Alzheimer’s – Telegraph
- “Are You Ready For Winter?” campaign launches – Scottish Government
Social issues
- Scottish population reaches new record high – BBC News
- Cold homes will kill up to 200 people a day, warns Age UK – Guardian
- Research shows majority concerned over impact of winter – Scottish Government
- Families denied information on ex-Southern Cross homes – Community Care
- Ageism at the BBC’s Question Time programme? – Guardian
- Older people have “stranglehold” on family homes – Guardian
- Elderly people need their spare bedrooms – Guardian
- Daughter spends £1000 hiring undercover carers to help her dying mother – Telegraph
Something for the weekend
- Age no barrier to Spain’s 103 year old Senate hopeful – Sydney Morning Herald
- Pensioners filmed “on the rampage” in an anti-social campaign video – Mirror
- George, 104, helps girlfriend Stella, 87, get online – BBC
- New technology employed to get more people talking about older people’s issues –
- Berkshire internet pupil, 74, becomes a tutor – BBC News
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