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Carers: a curtailed and lonely life

By ⋅ May 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the loneliest jobs a person can do is not working on an oil rig or spending months at an Antarctic research station; it’s being a carer. Margaret E Ward looks at the emotional and physical toll and, in light of Government inaction, asks what we can do to help

Bee in your bonnet?

By ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Is there something wrong with the world you live in? Maybe it’s the way older people are treated. Perhaps it’s the shameful extent of child poverty.  It could be the slow pace of progress on the climate change issue. Whatever it is, it’s driving you crazy. So, what do you do? Complain to family and [...]

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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