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Behavioural Shift

May 19, 2020
2 min

Robot interaction

As a result of using Paro, patients were found to have increased motor and emotional stimulations.

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Behavioural Shift

May 17, 2020
3 min

The importance of companionship

With coronavirus lockdown in full force, online dating sites are apparently booming. People are lonely, even lonelier than usual, so why not

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COVID-19 highlights the world’s inequalities: does the older person face discrimination?

Behavioural Shift

May 15, 2020
2 min

COVID-19 highlights the world’s inequalities: does the older person face discrimination?

The emergence of COVID-19, or the coronavirus, has highlighted the inequalities in much of the world - not just between groups within a soci

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Bowen Therapy and homeopathy: how they can help you

Behavioural Shift

May 13, 2020
2 min

Bowen Therapy and homeopathy: how they can help you

Is it time for you to give your system a boost with homeopathy? The Queen of England and the Royal Family use homeopathy so I think what is

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Behavioural Shift

May 12, 2020
3 min

A little vanity goes a long way

Even in lockdown, where I still take care of my appearance, a little vanity goes a long way.

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Opening the economy: how far should “age” matter?

Behavioural Shift

May 7, 2020
3 min

Opening the economy: how far should “age” matter?

“The old maxim rendered true — there is never someone more socialist than a wealthy capitalist in a time of crisis”

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Behavioural Shift

May 6, 2020
2 min

Celebrating VE Day

In this column Anne Mayer reflects on her experience of VE Day (which is on 8 May) and what it means to her.

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Behavioural Shift

May 3, 2020
3 min

Big Pharma and COVID-19

Whether or not one of the big pharmaceutical companies finds a vaccine, we do know that there is a big difference between what Big Pharma ch

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Stories from the pandemic: time management

Behavioural Shift

Apr 29, 2020
3 min

Stories from the pandemic: time management

We thought we would have got round to those nasty cleaning jobs we could never find the time to attend to. We will have read those books, li

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Stories from the pandemic: coping with anger

Behavioural Shift

Apr 28, 2020
3 min

Stories from the pandemic: coping with anger

The canal path is out of the question, despite glorious spring weather. Crammed with cycles, runners, large family groups and NO social dist

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Why We Touch Our Face – And How to Avoid It

Behavioural Shift

Apr 23, 2020
3 min

Why We Touch Our Face – And How to Avoid It

Humans are complicated creatures because of all our life experiences. We have beliefs, culture, actions, and body language that we do not no

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 21, 2020
3 min

Solitary confinement

These are extraordinary times and we are all suffering under lockdown. Some are locked up in small spaces with too many people and others ar

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 17, 2020
4 min

The marginalisation of older people

Just as there was only one Winston Churchill, so we are all individuals with medical needs every bit as varied as the personalities, talen

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 16, 2020
3 min

Risk in the time of a pandemic

We all take risks and in a time of pandemic the risks most of us take are greater. Each time we step outside or run into another person, ...

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 15, 2020
3 min

Long Live the Queen

Older people have been made to feel that they are the excess cargo which needs to be dumped into the sea before the ship goes down.

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 10, 2020
3 min

The great leap forward

The current crisis could well finally present an opportunity for a great leap forward in this area, once social isolation is finally over.

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To what extent is COVID-19 an “old person’s” disease?

Behavioural Shift

Apr 8, 2020
3 min

To what extent is COVID-19 an “old person’s” disease?

The news is dominated by what COVID-19 is doing to our health- personally and economically. Many countries were unprepared for the crisis, a

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 7, 2020
3 min

DON’T DO AGE BY NUMBERS

Ageism is as ugly as any other “ism”, but we can only defeat it by not conforming to its basic claims, that people and especially women of a

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Behavioural Shift

Apr 1, 2020
3 min

Technology in isolation

This article by Anne Mayer Bird is the first of several that she will be writing about life for the post 80s. I love the new website for ...

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Behavioural Shift

Mar 31, 2020
3 min

Staying in is hard to do

by Lucia Dore Staying locked up for days on end is not easy. A day can feel like a week; a week like four. This is especially true for f...

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