An economic, moral and spiritual challenge to us all:
The costs associated with dementia will amount to more than 1% of the world's gross domestic
Valuing Age
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Selling books is no easy work these days and authors need all the help we can get...... I am glad to give some space to this review by Helen Came
Unclouded ending?
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VERA, aged 71, is a lifelong member of her church, in Birmingham. She is angry that the Church seems preoccupied with the young.
Robert Butler
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I salute the work of this very remarkable man - who I met while on sabbatical in 2008 in Washington DC.
His influence on our thinking about old age ha
Older People have their part to play too
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(article published in the Church Times 7 May2010)
THE latest statistics from the Archbishops’ Council suggest that half of those in our pews are pe
A Second Flowering?
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Why is older age so important?
Inner exploration, undertaken with some cognizance of what may be discovered, leads to a possession of oneself, to r
Councils ‘will struggle with ageing population’
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Social care is currently means-tested in England Councils will struggle to cope with the financial challenge posed by England's ageing population, a
Dementia ‘losing out’ to cancer in funding stakes
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Dementia 'losing out' to cancer in funding stakes Each dementia patient costs the economy £27,647 each year Dementia now costs the UK economy twice
Ageing: Blessing or Burden?
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Last weekend I spent in Sarum College ( above) with a delightful and interesting group of people exploring the nature of age....
Here is a reflecti
Better Care for Dementia?
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Dementia services in England are not getting the priority that was promised, the National Audit Office has said.
It urges the Department of Health
Listen to Older People!
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Robert C Atchley, Spirituality and Aging, John Hopkins University Press 2009 -
This book is a reminder that sometimes wisdom is reserved for
The scandal of Care?
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Poor dementia care in hospitals
costing lives and hundreds of millions
Published 17 November 2009
People with dementia - who occupy a quarter of all
A Mission Shaped Church for Older People
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I travelled down from Windsor to London yesterday to share in a conference run by the Church Army and the Leveson Centre to promote our publication A
Too Old for what?
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Oliver Popplewell is annoyed. Why? At 75 he is obliged to retire from his post as a High Court Judge. He then embarks upon an adventure and ther eis t
Pensioner Poverty
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This shocking news report should move us all into some action:
Reform of the pensions and benefits system is urgently needed to tackle pensioner
Spirituality and Ageing
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Spirituality and Aging
Robert C. Atchley
John Hopkins University Press Maryland 2009
13: 978-0-8018-9119-9
There are a growing number of people who
What will you do when you grow old?
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind
Bringing Dementia out of the shadows
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It is easy to knock the Government and I wonder sometimes if any of us really understand the complex and demanding nature of modern governance?
Giving shape to Old Age
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In the Old Age of the Soul
I do not choose to dream; there cometh on me
Some strange old lust for deeds.
As to the nerveless hand of som
VALUING AGE?
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Later today I shall travel down to London for a small event to mark th epublication of this book. Thanks to my old boss Richard Harries ( now Lord H