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Dear Sir, Volunteers from service clubs and associations joined seniors to canvass 23 businesses across the island last month when our fellow citizens deposited $6,666.75 into their charity tag buckets. The Bermuda Senior Islanders’ Centre, Register...

Elizabeth “Betty” Musson Kawaley had her hair straightened the day her ship was supposed to leave for university in Canada. “It was what you did in those days if you were going somewhere special,” the 96-year-old remembered. But it was 1939, and th...

Last Sunday we were out on the ocean. It was already autumnally cool and windy. The sun was playing hide and seek with us, peeping out of the white clouds and scattering sheets of silver sparks on the radiantly blue water. There was a flash of warmth...

Doctors removed a tumour from Kenny Fray’s mouth and gave him five years to live. Nine years later he is still here, defying the odds. “I think I’m blessed,” he said. “I’m not complaining about anything.” His late wife, Brenda, was the first to noti...

How old do you feel? Yesterday I talked to a Russian client who is now living in Norway, via video chat. At the end of the conversation, she suddenly burst into tears. “What should I do next? I am almost done. I’m already an old woman, I feel like a ...

Joy Sticca dubbed her work space “The Joyful Corner”; for 30 years the name stuck. Five years after her retirement from the Bermuda Department of Tourism, her old colleagues still shout out “Hey Joyful” whenever they pass her on the street. “Some peo...

Public perception of the elderly should change in an attempt to stop them feeling “invisible”, the chairman of a specialist housing trust has said. John Barritt, the Bermuda Housing Trust chairman, added it was important to pay attention to seniors a...

A new halfway housing development for elderly people designed to let them lead independent lives but with professional back-up is being considered. John Barritt, chairman of the Bermuda Housing Trust which has 184 homes spread across five locations, ...

A nursing home assistant attacked a female patient with dementia and gave her a black eye, a court heard. Barbara King Bean, 53, was caught after the patient was taken to hospital with a swollen eye. Magistrates’ Court was told that the elderly woman...

A care home’s oldest patient has notched up a century — plus two. Olivette Burch Morris, known as “Aunt Oli” to her nieces, celebrated her 102nd birthday with family and friends at Lefroy House in Sandys. The party was planned by her brother, Willard...

Bermuda must develop a strategy to cut the cost of care for seniors and help families to look after their relatives at home, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda said yesterday. Claudette Fleming said the organisation had highlighted the gro...

There are some seniors who pull out their cameras only while on vacation or to snap shots of grandchildren; Barbara Robinson takes pictures of her cakes. They litter the pages of her photo albums, a record of the many she’s made over the past few dec...