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Ethel Caterham, who lives in a care home in Surrey and takes life in her stride, is first Briton to claim title since 1987The secret of longevity is to do what you like, according to the 115-year-old British woman named the world’s oldest living person…
Experts call for redesign of financial services and improved Centrelink processes to protect older Australians from fraudGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe fraud began when Ray Baird, then 65, asked his son Peter for he…
Exclusive: Family doctors have switched to providing far fewer in-person appointmentsGPs in poor parts of England are paid £5,500 less a year than in wealthy areas, study findsPatients’ satisfaction with GP services has collapsed in recent years as fam…
£1.5bn of funding has been granted to transform a hospital into a neighbourhood designed for people to thrive as they ageFuturistic planning for spaces where people can age well and live in an area designed for them to grow old in is accelerating in th…
Lib Dems say not a single all-party meeting on issue has taken place since plan for national care service was unveiledThe government has been accused of “delay and drift” after it emerged crucial cross-party talks aimed at building political consensus …
Lead signatory of letter to Church Times says it is ‘moral and Christian imperative’ to ensure dignified retirementChurch of England vicars are demanding an increase in pensions amid claims that many face an impoverished old age, with some forced to re…
BT had planned to remove the familiar red kiosk in rural Norfolk until 89-year-old Derek Harris intervenedAn 89-year-old man has won his battle to save the last remaining phone box in a village in East Anglia.
Derek Harris learned in January that BT w…
Maria Branyas Morera, US-born supercentenarian who died in Spain last August, found to have microbiota of an infantThe US-born woman who was the world’s oldest living person before she died in Spain last August at age 117 once attributed her longevity …
Shift in circulating strains means those who’ve already had vomiting bug this winter risk catching it againThe UK could be facing a second wave of the winter vomiting bug, norovirus, the UK Health Security Agency has warned.The latest figures show a ri…
Government ruled out giving £10bn to women born in 1950s whose pensionable age was raised to be equal with menCampaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders its decision to rule out spending £10bn compensating “Waspi…