Author Archives: john graham

Aviva Equity Release

Posted on December 9, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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Equity Release – Pot of Gold?

Posted on December 2, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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High Price of Dignity

Posted on November 25, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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Dignity be damned again !

Posted on November 18, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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Depressed Birds

Posted on November 11, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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Quick Fix Depression

Posted on November 4, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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Dementia Repeats Itself

Posted on October 28, 2018 by john graham

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 →

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TV No Longer Free ? Part Two

Posted on October 21, 2018 by john graham

This follows on from my last post about the BBC reviewing the free TV licenses currently given to all over 75’s. The Beeb is launching a consultation, which means they would like to scrap free licences, but they don’t know … Continue reading →

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TV No Longer Free ?

Posted on October 14, 2018 by john graham

A few years ago the Government quietly passed responsibility for “free TV licenses for over 75’s” over to the BBC.    It was announced in the Chancellor’s budget statement, but attracted little comment.  The Government used to foot the bill … Continue reading →

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Social Prescribing

Posted on October 7, 2018 by john graham

We have got a new Health Secretary, Matthew Hancock and he is full of new ideas.   Well they are old ideas really.    SOCIAL PRESCRIBING, remember these two new buzzwords, they are about to revolutionise care of older people … Continue reading →

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