More results...
England’s chief medical officer says more realistic conversations needed about some treatments’ side-effectsEngland’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has called for a cultural shift in medicine away from maximising lifespan and towards impro…
Exclusive: Poll shows young people willing to make big lifestyle changes but baulk at smaller gesturesThey are willing to have smaller families, stop using cars and – albeit in smaller numbers – go vegan for the planet, but abandoning single-use plasti…
Dorothy Hoffner, who first skydived at 100, left her walker on the ground and made the 13,500ft tandem jump in northern IllinoisA 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the …
Campaigners had warned against cutting back allowance amid reports PM was considering its removal for those not on pension creditNo 10 has denied Rishi Sunak will scrap the winter fuel allowance for most elderly people, after reports that he was lookin…
A judicial council said Pauline Newman of the US court of appeals cannot effectively discharge her duties due to disabilityA 96-year-old federal appeals court judge has been barred from hearing cases for a year, after a panel said she refused to underg…
Country ageing at fastest rate on record and small rise in population due to inward migration, delayed survey showsScotland’s population has grown at the lowest rate of any nation in the UK and is ageing at the fastest rate on record, according to the …
Ofgem said homes with young children were also part of expanded and mandatory code of practiceEnergy suppliers have been officially banned from force-fitting prepayment meters for elderly people and those with infant children after a scandal over compa…
Drop from £7.53 in every £100 to £3.98 in 10 years comes as property drives intergenerational divideCampaigners have sounded the alarm about a potential increase in pensioner poverty in Britain over the coming decades after it emerged that the share of…
A prescription drug cost-reduction program was installed under the Inflation Reduction Act to help out Medicare recipientsThe Biden administration has selected 10 drugs for the first round of price negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical compa…
TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and low pay is leading to widespread poverty among wor…