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Age Concern has received a $5,000 donation from Axis Capital. “The aim of our charitable donations committee is to look for opportunities to support initiatives that lay the foundation for the growth and development of the residents of Bermuda of al...

There’s no place like Bermuda for Margie Lloyd. She and her late husband Peter once called Africa, Hong Kong, Fiji and England home. They were living in the Cayman Islands, where Mr Lloyd was governor, just before they returned here permanently in 1...

Westmeath, the island’s largest care home for seniors, has moved to counter perceptions of the facility as overly priced. Rising costs recently left the charity with no choice but to increase its rates by 1.5 per cent — but Barbara Lee, chairman of W...

Joyce Williams’s parents died at 85. She hit the same age and started planning her funeral. Her children, Greta Mkoka and the late Earlston Williams, convinced her to wait it out a bit. It’s likely they recognised the stuff their mother was made of. ...

She’s passed on her musical skills to dozens of young pianists — but on Saturday afternoon it was Olivette Burch Morris’s turn to be entertained. Nearly 150 friends and family gathered at the Cobbs Hill Gospel Hall to wish centenarian Ms Morris a hap...

Norma Blackman was always strongly independent. She credits her parents, Constance and Gilbert Cox. “They taught me not to bring my problems home, to sort them out myself,” the 84-year-old said. “I didn’t find that harsh. I found that strengthening....

Seniors advocates are calling on the Bermuda Government to enforce tighter standards at care homes amid concerns some are unwilling to come on board of their own accord. Claudette Fleming, the executive director of Age Concern, questioned whether the...

Almost 30 seniors were honoured this weekend at the annual Seniors Awards Ceremony at the Fairmont Southampton. The event, hosted by the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs to pay tribute to the island’s seniors, recognised the contributions...

More than 125 family members extending some four generations turned out in honour of Inez Wilson’s 95th birthday last month. Without a doubt, the God-fearing mother of seven enjoyed every moment of the festivities at the Bermuda Institute auditorium ...

Age is just a number, goes the saying, but in this society it is often the elderly whose concerns are overlooked, the elderly who are cast into a corner waiting to move on to the next life while “those who know better” get on with the business of liv...

Housing the island’s burgeoning senior population, who face increasing financial pressures, will require the private sector to pitch in, according to Age Concern. Assisted-living communities were suggested as a solution during yesterday’s gathering o...

The Department of Social Insurance has apologised to the island’s seniors after it was discovered that some were being short-changed on their pensions increase. The matter arose when a reader complained to The Royal Gazette that he and his partner ...