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Living with tinnitus: Information, use of essential oils and treatment.
While there's no cure yet for tinnitus, some psychological therapies are helping people live with the sometimes frightening condition. Imagine having a humming or whistling noise in your ears or head every hour of every day. Not only are the intrusive sounds a...
Here’s to better hearing
Technology has made some hearing-aids almost undetectable. We explore what’s on offer and how to choose. Choice reports that with people living longer, increasing numbers will spend half their lifetime suffering from hearing loss. The big question, according to...
Drugs to vaccinate over-50s against Alzheimer’s could be here in a decade… with a £9bn price tag
Drugs to vaccinate everyone over the age of 50 against Alzheimer’s could be available within 10 years, but would cost the NHS £9 billion, a new report has shown. The Telegraph reports that new analysis commissioned by Alzheimer’s Research UK found that drugs to...
Spruce up for Spring! The Top 5 world Spring cleaning traditions
For many of us, spring cleaning doesn't have much to do with culture, religion or spirituality. We've been cooped up in our stuffy dwellings all winter, which can be such a downer that we sometimes let the clutter and dust pile up. Now that the weather is warm,...
Groovy time: Why 1966 was the greatest year of the century!
The Beatles, Swinging London, mini skirts and Mini cars - what a great time it was to be young. We look back at a remarkable year. What a wonderful year it was,to be young–or let’s be more specific, to be young and British. Of all the so-called Swinging...
Just ripe for March! 10 seasonal fruits and vegetables
With winter ending and spring fast approaching, it's time to introduce new flavours to your plate with these seasonal foods. March marks the end of winter (hurrah!) and the beginning of spring - even if it doesn’t quite feel it yet. (You know, that whole in...
Boating for beginners: Set sail on the Norfolk Broads
For some time I had considered a lovely and relaxing boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads. However, being a complete boating novice, the thought of handling and parking a large cabin cruiser was somewhat daunting to say the least. Imagine my delight when I...
The building society of Mum and Dad: What’s the best way to help your children onto the property ladder?
You may not expect to see the 'Bank of Mum and Dad' on a list of mortgage lenders, but according to Legal & General, parents supported property purchases worth £77bn last year, which makes them one of the top ten lenders. And with rising numbers of 'adult'...
Move over Saga – 50 is the new 30!
Making the most out of your retirement - Travelling abroad when you're over 50 Over Fifties Friends reports that getting older or retiring from full-time employment doesn’t mean that you have to lurk around the house watching day time TV all day. There are...
A new age for retirement
Ernest Hemmingway believed that retirement was the ugliest word in the English language. His comment seems more prescient today than ever. Over Fifties Friends reports that the retirement process of years gone by is no longer relevant and we have to find a...
Here’s how to age happily and see getting older in a whole new light
Embracing the ageing process can be a positive experience if you choose to see it that way. Do you flinch when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake? Or surreptitiously keep the date hidden from your friends and colleagues? You may have a touch of...
Turn back your age clock
Advice on fighting aging has become as traditional in January as the sales - yet the various recommended strategies can demand far too much effort for few convincing returns. So here's some of the science on anti-aging - along with four tried and tested ways to...