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Age Concern members are invited to an information session about their health insurance. The event, “Understanding Your Insurance Coverage”, which will take place on Tuesday, is being run in conjunction with the Health Insurance Department and MoonGat...

You do not need insulin injections. You do not have to stick your finger every day to check the blood sugar. You never had a problem with eating sweets. So, you do not have diabetes, right? Not so fast. Do you sometimes feel more thirsty than you sho...

A charitable 15-year-old has raised more than $700 for a nursing home. Aspiro Cannonier, of Sandys, generated the cash for Packwood Nursing Home in Somerset through house sales and selling baked goods with the help of her mother Queena. It is Aspiro’...

Dianna Adams laughs at the idea of slowing down after retirement. The 70-year-old teaches exercise classes, grows vegetables, constructs furniture and makes household repairs. “I’m busier than ever,” she said. She got interested in fitness while wor...

Becky Wright is a nutritional therapist and international bikini fitness champion. She’s also a personal trainer at Alchemy Fitness and offers her expert advice to the public through a regular column in The Royal Gazette. Q: How did you get starte...

Dear Sir, There should be a protest march against this new piece of legislation that came at us seniors like a rocket out of the blue. How in the name of so-called compassion could a complete legislative body even, by a long shot, pass a draconian la...

We owe our life to blood circulation. The heart pumps blood through our body’s extensive network of blood vessels called arteries. The arteries carry the blood to our organs, supplying them with oxygen and nutrients. To pump blood through the arterie...

Wilma Bristol Scruggs wanted to see the world, but just going to the beach was hard. She was a child, living on Pembroke’s Curving Avenue, and plagued by asthma. “Going to the beach seemed to trigger it,” the 73-year-old. “I think it was brought on ...

A frustrated senior who claims her home is being invaded by feral cats is calling on animal charities to remove them from her property. Mildred Dyer says that up to 12 cats, including a litter of kittens, routinely congregate around her Ingham’s Vale...

A free yoga therapy programme designed to benefit Bermuda’s seniors is being launched. The four-month, one-on-one programme aims to demonstrate how yoga and yoga therapy counselling can help with some common health issues that affect our ageing popu...

The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...

Obesity means having too much body fat. It happens when you eat more calories than you use. The balance of calories in and calories out is different for each person. Factors that can affect this balance include diet, physical activity and genetics. O...