The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

Years of widening economic inequality, compounded by the pandemic and political storm and stress, have given Americans the impression that the country is on the wrong track. Now there's empirical data to show just how far the country has run off the rails: Life expectancies have been falling.

Meet Shirley Goodman, the 100-year-old who swears by dancing the "Tush Push" and eating chocolate every day

Officers said care roles weren't financially attractive enough

Betty Buckland a 93-year-old care home resident in Edinburgh fulfilled her wish to fly a small plane again said the experience "brought back so many happy memories".

Nursery manager Alan Cunningham has lettered families apologising and promising "it will never happen again" after a child was found wandering by a local resident.

Soaring costs and the recruitment and retention of nursing staff mean Balmanno House can no longer be sustained by the charity running the 200 year old west end care home.

West end institution now set to be sold, following an orderly closure

The Community Grants Programme, managed by NHS Blood and Transplant, distributed the funds to some fifty organisations which include the Sickle Cell Society

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