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I believe that, regardless of the circumstances, we ourselves choose the roads we follow. We do it every day with our thoughts, desires and actions. Exactly three years ago I did my first “live” broadcast on Facebook. I was finishing radiation treatm...

Older people were supported through the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the generosity of donors and collaborative working, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda said yesterday. Claudette Fleming explained that an outpouring...

More than 20 million Americans ages 60 to 65 got a rude surprise this year. Many of us, BC — before the novel coronavirus — had counted on a little more time before we had to see ourselves as “old”. Yet in recent weeks, we’ve been shoved towards sene...

Major investments in the island’s care home sector will be needed to cope with a “tsunami” of ageing seniors. Patrice Horner, of specialist financial advice service Senior Solutions, said the development of affordable options to look after the growin...

It is my honour to compose a few words in memory of my mentor and friend J.C. “Kit” Astwood, OBE, who died last week aged 87. I had the pleasure of working with Kit when I was employed by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. Like most people when they l...

March was a stark month for Bermuda. It was startling that a number of nursing homes had Covid-19 cases and some were spread by care workers on shift work at more than one home. Many well-trained and hard-working nurses and nursing aides work at mor...

A care home recovering from an outbreak of Covid-19 has a new executive director who is no stranger to a crisis. April Augustus will take the helm at Westmeath Nursing and Residential Home on Monday, after a year-long stint as executive director at ...

A drop in motivation to exercise has hit personal trainers who shifted classes online during the Covid-19 restrictions. Freelance trainers are struggling to keep their businesses afloat after weeks of pandemic protection rules. Frances Smith, 25, sai...

I learnt a long time ago how to quickly rebuild my life whenever plans collapsed suddenly and everything changed — sometimes in an instant. The first reaction is shock, horror, disbelief and panic. I’ve managed to quickly cope with all this. I do no...

Dear Sir, In the wake of Nurses Month and the Bermuda Day holiday weekend, I am reminded of my outing with two very special retired Bermudian nurses a few months ago. On a sunny afternoon in January, Gladys Simmons Barney and Grace deShield Washingto...

The number of emergency calls involving people with dementia has risen during the Covid-19 crisis, a charity for sufferers and their caregivers has warned. Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia, which has stopped its usual programmes for the “foreseeabl...

No more care home cases of Covid-19 have been found after testing across the sector was completed at the weekend, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman added that the results for all 21 homes had now come back and the number of cases ...