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Author Archives: john graham
Aviva Equity Release
This is another follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
Equity Release – Pot of Gold?
This is a follow-up to my post “Equity Release Revisited” which prompted me to look into the subject again and start a new series of blogs on the subject. I first wrote about this in 2012 and then again in … Continue reading
High Price of Dignity
Following on from my last weeks post about the under funding of Residential Care comes a contrasting viewpoint. A headline in The Guardian —— “Scandal Of UK’s worst Care Homes Revealed”. The article reports on an investigation carried out by the … Continue reading
Dignity be damned again !
Care homes are again in the headlines. The Daily Mail has once again raised its campaigning banner “Dignity for the Elderly”. It’s been a very long and wholly ineffective effort. It started way back in 2010, when … Continue reading
Depressed Birds
Just a week ago I was writing about too many older people being prescribed anti-depressants to combat loneliness. (See “Quick Fix Depression” by clicking on Pills in the TAG CLOUD). GP’s don’t change their habits easily, so I don’t expect … Continue reading
Quick Fix Depression
20% OF OLDER PEOPLE ARE TAKING ANTI-DEPRESSANTS! The number is rising every year. Have they become the new ‘go-away pill’ of the year. In the quick-fix, cure-all, out-of-sight, out-of-mind GP service and the bed-blocked, older-people-are-a-constant-nuisance NHS. A double page … Continue reading
Dementia Repeats Itself
Sufferers of dementia are renowned for their forgetfulness and recognised by their tendency to repeat the same questions over and over. I first came across this when I opened a nursing home called Newfield House in Coventry in … Continue reading
