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A stroke volunteer’s story
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Exclusive: Could this AI device keep older people independent – and connected – in their own homes?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is variously portrayed as a potential boon to mankind… or a destructive force. A small collaborative group, including AAA members Easiphones and AAA chair, Tony Watts OBE, are looking to harness it as a force for good for older people living alone… and avoid the perils of technology edging out the human…
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How can we maximise the “wellbeing potential” of retirement living?
Tony Watts OBE recently gave a presentation at LaingBuisson’s Social Care Summit on why later life housing developers need to “futureproof” their schemes by “maximising their wellbeing potential”. Here is an adapted version of that presentation. A common theme in any discussion on retirement housing in the UK is why retirement developments here have not…
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Are you owed some of “Britain’s missing billions”?
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Do we need Commissioners for Older People and Ageing Well in England and Scotland?
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Older people take their demand for a Commissioner to Downing Street
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We are all paying the price for the nation’s poor and dangerous housing
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Is your workplace carer-friendly?
If not, it will almost certainly hurt your business, argues Deborah Stone of Mature Thinking. That’s because caring is increasingly becoming a part of people’s lives as our population continues to age and fewer and fewer qualify for support – and the nation’s growing army of informal carers are struggling to combine work and care.
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WASPI: justice will have to wait… again
Grenfell, Windrush, subpostmasters, the blood transfusion scandal, Dilnot… the latest delay in implementing the Ombudsman’s report on WASPI women is just one more examplar, writes Tony Watts OBE, of the tactics routinely used by Government to put off rectifying historic wrongs or fulfilling promises made – many involving older people who may never live to…
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Pensions Freedom 10 years on: who have been the winners… and losers?
