-
Recent Posts
Topics
- ABOUT GRUMBLESMILES (9)
- ELDERLY MARKET (34)
- Economy (1)
- Grey Products (14)
- ELDERLY UK POLICY (113)
- Assisted Suicide (14)
- Care Funding (10)
- Pensions (18)
- GRUMBLES (38)
- GRUMBLESMILES TRUST (64)
- HEALTH (164)
- Dementia (35)
- N.H.S. (25)
- Nursing Homes (4)
- RETIREMENT HOUSING (72)
- Residential Care (30)
- Sheltered Housing (1)
- SMILES (197)
Archives
TAG CLOUD
"Age Friendly" "A Happiness Ladder" "A Health Ladder" "A Horizon Ladder" "America" "A Wealth Ladder" "Befuddled" "Breakfast" "Dignity be damned" "Easy Money" "EMFV" "ExtraCare Traditions" "Francis Report" "Fruitful Research" "GrumbleSmiles Post" "Home Alone" "Japan Odyssey" "Last Laugh" "Lift your Spirits" "LLLP" "Mediterranean Reflections" "My Garden Age" "Neglect Shames Britain" "New Vision of Later Life" "Old Geek" "Pension Crystal Ball" "Pills" "poorly feet" "Princethorpe Court Story" "Same Old Same Old" "Southern Cross" "Technology Gap" "The Slippery Slope" "Uplifting Experience" " Walk for Life " " £140 Pension Illusion" ageing Age UK alzheimer's assisted suicide baby boomers Bears bus pass CAFE PROJECT care funding Care Quality Commission Cheylesmore Good Neighbours Cloud Surfing Clutter Daily Mail Dementia Demographics Dilnot Commission Equity Release Euthanasia Exercise Gaudi GPs Grandparents grey market GRUMBLES Molly's Story NHS packaging Patients' Association pensions research Retirement Small Print smiles Social Care Stairlifts Strokes Welsh Housing Wrinkles
Category Archives: ELDERLY MARKET
Baby Boomer Plasters
There are 15 million older people in the U.K. and that number will increase by 24% by 2040. So it represents the fastest growing sector of the population. In marketing terms it is the least well understood … Continue reading
Posted in ELDERLY MARKET, Grey Products
1 Comment
Memory Card Readers
I can’t imagine why anyone would want a card reader. I can read my cards all by myself. Perhaps they get a lot more fan mail than I do, or receive hundreds of Christmas cards which they don’t … Continue reading
“Timpson Tie Up”
One of the great challenges when you are growing up is learning to tie up shoe laces. These are the days before Velcro. Nothing was more embarrassing than not being able to tie your own shoe laces when you went … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Products, SMILES
2 Comments
“Daylight Robbery”
Most robbery is done in the dark. More daring robbery in the day usually requires a disguise. Pirates had patches over one eye. Stagecoach robbers in cowboy films had their neckerchiefs pulled up over their faces. Modern day jewellery thieves … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Products
4 Comments
It’s your funeral 😄
Buying a funeral plan is a way of making sure there is enough money to pay for your last big send off yourself, rather than leaving the bill to be picked up by unhappy relatives when you are gone. … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Products
6 Comments
“My Little Tin Box”
When I was young we didn’t have a lot of money and I remember my mum used to have a tin box on the mantlepiece where she saved money for the rent, the insurance, Christmas, my school uniform – a … Continue reading
Posted in Economy
3 Comments
“Age UK – Not So Cheap !”
Just as I predicted, Age UK is back in the news again with more bad news. (This follows on from the three previous blogs which you can see by clicking on “Age UK ” in the Tag Cloud). After the … Continue reading
