Category Archives: ELDERLY MARKET

“Uplifting Experience ? ” 5

Posted on July 26, 2012 by john graham

This is a continuation of a series of blogs about stairlifts.  For earlier blogs click on “UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE” in the TAG CLOUD. My first enquiries through comparison websites and directly to manufacturers and suppliers like Age UK, turned up a distinct … Continue reading →

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“Uplifting Experience” 4

Posted on July 22, 2012 by john graham

My Acorn stairlift brochure arrived today.   This is in response to my enquiry to “Which Stairlift” and the unasked for follow-up phone call from a name I can’t recall. This brochure is useful as far as it goes; nice … Continue reading →

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“Uplifting Experience ? ” 3

Posted on July 17, 2012 by john graham

(Click on “UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE” in the TAG CLOUD for other posts in this series). Just had another follow-up phone call that I did not ask for from “Fred” who is from “Companion Stairlifts” that I did not contact. It turns out they … Continue reading →

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“Uplifting Experience ? ” 2

Posted on July 12, 2012 by john graham

(Click on “UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE” in the TAG CLOUD for other posts in this series). I next decided to look for something more familiar and number 3 on Google was Age UK Stairlifts, which must be open and up-front.  The Age UK logo … Continue reading →

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“Uplifting Experience ? ” 1

Posted on July 10, 2012 by john graham

I had a conversation recently about the difficulties some older people have getting up and down stairs as they become less mobile.  It was in the context of the older people who live in two storey houses with bedrooms upstairs … Continue reading →

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“Equity Release – Life Raft or Scandal?”

Posted on June 12, 2012 by john graham

For a long time now I have been advocating that older people will have to use the value built up in the house to secure themselves a better lifestyle in later life.   There is around £1 trillion locked up in … Continue reading →

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“More Easy Money”

Posted on March 18, 2012 by john graham

In my last blog on this subject (click on “Easy Money” in the TAG CLOUD), I was endeavouring to repay my part of the national debt, by securing some newly printed Quantitative Easing money.   To be prudent, which is something … Continue reading →

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“Easy Money”

Posted on March 2, 2012 by john graham

It is a rare sunny day in winter, so I woke up with a happy disposition.  It could have been dashed quite quickly – as soon as I opened the newspaper to find that for the first time ever Britain … Continue reading →

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“Plastic Fantastic”

Posted on September 4, 2011 by john graham

A recent article in the Daily Mail on the 15th August 2011, reported on an 83-year-old lady in America who caused quite a stir in the medical establishment when she decided to have breast implants. This really had me in … Continue reading →

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“Granola Wars”

Posted on June 19, 2011 by john graham

As our society ages, manufacturers that don’t make products suitable for the grey market, will miss out on a huge segment of elderly consumers.  It is especially frustrating when excellent products are wrapped up in impossible-to-open packaging because by then … Continue reading →

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