Glorious Summer

There is increasing evidence that from about 10,000BCE, after people settled and started tending crops and domesticating animals, that diet improved, health improved and longevity started to rise.  Despite the fact that nothing was written down, there were no birth certificates and memory can play tricks on us even today, we can learn a lot […]

Our level of health as we grow older and even whether we grow old at all, is dictated by many things. We are born with a genetic make-up that can be improved by healthy living or damaged by stress and pollution. But it would be wrong to consider that longevity is simply a health issue.

Longevity is a scientific issue, but ageing is a social, financial, political and a feminist issue.  Like many things that happen to women more than men, growing old is often side-lined.  The disaster in our care homes during 2020 was a disaster that occurred more often to women than to men.  And it has been