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Christmas started early at a nursing home yesterday as volunteers from a professional services firm delivered hampers of food and gifts to four resident war veterans and widows. Janet Whitwell-Caisey, the director of nursing at Westmeath home in Pemb...

A rest home has been ordered to tighten its procedures after an elderly resident was found lying at the side of a busy road. The woman was returned to the home, where staff were not aware that she had gone missing. Now the Government’s Ageing and Dis...

Elizabeth Kitson isn’t all that impressed about turning 100. It’s understandable considering her life experiences. She remembers being wonderstruck by electricity when it was introduced here; equally unforgettable is a journey to Britain during the ...

Bermuda High School pupils raised more than $2,500 to bring food and comfort to people with dementia this festive season. Residents of the Packwood Home in Somerset got a special visit when 11 schoolgirls presented them with food hampers, toiletries...

Taxi driver Archie Mello began his career in a tiny Austin 10 car in 1952. Mr Mello is still going strong and yesterday he was honoured for his 66 years of service with a certificate of appreciation from the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Mr Mello, 88, w...

Seniors are expected to see an increase in their pensions after MPs backed a rise in payments. Legislators supported raising the amount by 1.4 per cent although Opposition members claimed the rate was “embarrassing”. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of...

Joycelyn Martin just couldn’t believe it when a doctor told her she had ovarian cancer. She had not felt any pain despite the mass, found in her stomach during a routine checkup two years ago. The doctor repeated himself three times before she accep...

A seniors home was transformed into a party scene when residents, visitors and staff gathered for a Christmas lunch and carol singing. Westmeath Residential and Nursing Care Home welcomed about 120 people for the event. Tinsel, baubles and decorative...

Ruby Sampson packed as much as she could into her life, assuming it would not be a long one. Although her father Leonard Trott had lived to be 92, her mother, Beatrice, had died at 39. That she is turning 100 tomorrow is a bit of a shock for Mrs Samp...

The cultural legacy of Bermuda’s seniors will form part of a trove of filmed interviews and video recordings to air on the Bermuda Government television station. Lovitta Foggo, the social development minister, said there would be “a concerted effort ...

Raymond DeShields never visits St George’s without taking a swing around Ordnance Island. He likes to check on the Deliverance replica; his baby. Fifty years ago, he helped to build it for the Bermuda Junior Service League, and still remembers ever...

Following the success of the Seniors Craft Exhibition during Heritage Month (May), the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs has organized a second event this year for senior citizens to sell their homemade crafts and wares. The pre-Christma...