#age uk

(REF.) With @dear-indies' permission, I am posting this so anyone who wants to support the work they do in the RPC can reblog this post to spread their wishes around.

If anybody has any spare ££ which I know is tight right now so please don’t feel pressured, there’s the MDS foundation, which although I have no experience with the foundation (dw it’s a legitimate 501©3 tax-exempt organization) it has everything I would have liked to have known when my loved one got diagnosed. Donating to any of your local homeless charities and/or mental health support charities would also be cool. Oh, there’s also Age UK which is beyond amazing for the older folks in the UK who are neglected by the government.

Additionally, you can also donate ICHelp as an organisation that pertains to them personally.

December 20th, 2017: Yesterday Louis Tomlinson tweeted in support of the tv show Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds and RTed the tweet from channel 4 announcing its screening. Channel 4 replied to Louis saying “BIG LOVE”, a quote Louis often uses. This show has aired in two parts, one in August and one this week.

The show, a CPL Productions, was modelled after an American tv show in which a group of elderly was made to spend 6 weeks with a group of children. The idea behind the show was to introduce in the lives of elderly people suffering from loneliness a group of children in the hope to alleviate the sense of loneliness and isolation. The U.K. version of the show has brought together children from Bristol nurseries with elderly people  from the St Monica Trust’s Cote Lane retirement home in Westbury-on-Trym.

The episode that aired this week on channel 4 , which has partnered with Age U.K., was a Christmas special with children designing Christmas cards, singing of Christmas carols by both children and adults, and playing in the snow. Chief executive of St Monica Trust, David Williams said: “It’s an absolute pleasure to welcome CPL and the children back to the Trust to film the Christmas special. The trust has worked in partnership with Age UK on a number of community initiatives in Bristol and we’re excited to be helping them spearhead this national campaign to highlight social isolation among the older population.”

Finally three geriatric specialists, Professor Malcolm Johnson, Dr Zoe Wyrki and Dr Melrose Stewart commented on the effect of the interaction with the children on the sense of isolation and lonliness felt by the elderly. It was found that both elderly and children benefited from being together and learned from one another.

The show is still available online on All4 if you want to watch it.

Go bananas for the #BigKnit for #AgeUK

Do not go gentle into that good night. The famous Dylan Thomas lines inspired by the poet’s dying father should serve as a message to every aged person in the country and encourage them to ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ Rage? You bet. In fact, I’m effing fuming daily about how the older generation are treated in this country. And a report recently published by MPs is on my side,…

The government’s refusal to publish a proper impact study of exactly who will be the worst off from the abolition of the winter fuel allowance for 10.8 million pensioners was one of the worst acts of this new Labour government. Not only was it bad government not to provide the facts on such a big change for so many people but it looks like a deliberate act to conceal the damage ministers knew it…