Category Archives: RETIREMENT HOUSING

Bungalow Moonshot.

Posted on October 15, 2025 by john graham

This post follows on from my last, on my favourite subject 🤡 BUNGALOWS. It’s obviously popular with journalists because they keep writing about it and with politicians, who keep talking about it. Older people too, keep dreaming about it. Sadly … Continue reading →

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Bungalow Illusions

Posted on October 12, 2025 by john graham

It’s that time of the year again. The Party Conference season. The time when all Government Housing Ministers and shadow housing ministers try to explain why they haven’t built much housing lately and how they now have the answer to … Continue reading →

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Elderly Commodity—- continued

Posted on November 1, 2020 by john graham

This is a continuation of my previous post commenting on the Sunday Times Insight investigation into the Government/ NHS handling of the Coronapop crisis. At the beginning they were focused on preventing the NHS from being overwhelmed, which is understandable … Continue reading →

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Elderly Commodity

Posted on October 28, 2020 by john graham

Two headlines in the Sunday Times on 25 October grabbed my attention:- “Revealed: how elderly paid price of protectingNHS from Covid”  was the front page story of an investigation onto how older people were treated by the NHS during the … Continue reading →

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A Dementia Way Forward

Posted on July 31, 2019 by john graham

My last two posts were prompted by the campaign launched in the Daily Mail to get the Government to address the disgraceful state of care for people with dementia in this country.   It has very successfully exposed the level … Continue reading →

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Dementia in the News again

Posted on July 24, 2019 by john graham

The summer is a quiet time for news and Brexit seems to be at a standstill.   So  The Daily Mail has polished up some old news and started a campaign about the injustice of people having to sell their … 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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Care Home Time Bomb!

Posted on June 10, 2018 by john graham

The title of this blog is taken from the front page headlines of the Daily Express on Tuesday 5th June 2018.   It’s a report from an investigation carried out by the GMB Union which investigated the level of arrears of … Continue reading →

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Community Retirement Villages – next steps

Posted on October 22, 2017 by john graham

This is a drawing together of my series of blogs about a new form of  Community Retirement Village. It has not been easy to distill the essence of thirty years work building and then managing a new type of retirement … Continue reading →

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