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elderly

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Community life the fairest deal for older people

By ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Surely the research shows that we have it wrong? Nursing homes are not the best answer. Community care of incapacitated older people is more natural and humane than the institutionalisation of nursing homes and hospitals.

Grey matters

By ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Finding her first grey hair has columnist Margaret E. Ward in a tizzy and rethinking her attitude to aging.

There’s a lot of living to be done in so-called old age

By ⋅ May 1, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Originally published as a business column in the Irish Times on May 5, 2009 Western society has hang-ups about ageing, and older people are often invisible or ignored.

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