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If the Budget were Christmas, “expect Scrooge instead of Santa Claus”, says Charles Jeffers, the deputy chairman of Age Concern. Seniors advocates would like to see an increase in monthly pensions, but Mr Jeffers has conceded that it would take “a mi...

If anyone can argue that age is just a number, it’s 90-year-old Olive Wilkinson. Her daily routine keeps her busy. She exercises, watches her favourite cooking shows and knits caps and sweaters for needy children in Uganda. And despite having diabet...

Changes have been made at the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged (NOSPC), an organisation which has been “strongly criticised in a series of stories by The Royal Gazette for failing to ensure proper protection for seniors”, acc...

There has been a series of articles in the press this week highlighting concerns about the care provided to seniors. While I don’t agree with all of the information presented in the articles, I am sure that for the people involved, the events were te...

A residential home criticised by Derrick Burgess, the Shadow Minister for Seniors, has hit back at his claims of inadequate standards — while staff at a second facility named by the Opposition politician say a community-wide effort is needed to ensur...

The decision to move someone from their own home into a rest home or nursing home is one that should not be taken lightly. Studies show that once a person enters a nursing home, their life expectancy is greatly reduced and this alone should prompt u...

Families are being stopped from moving their elderly relatives to different residential homes from facilities that they are unhappy with, it has been alleged. The daughter of an 89-year-old woman claims that she and her siblings have been blocked fro...

A residential home for seniors in Paget is at the centre of three separate alleged cases of neglect. Sunny Vale Rest Home on St Michael’s Road claims that it offers “outstanding” care to the elderly, but one former resident told The Royal Gazette tha...

An 81-year-old man suffering from “severe” bedsores was “rescued” by concerned members of the public from a rest home that could not care for him properly — after the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged (NOSPC) failed to find hi...

Bermuda’s seniors are receiving “deplorable” care in residential facilities and private homes across the Island yet the authorities are failing to act, it has been alleged. An investigation by The Royal Gazette has uncovered a number of cases where e...

Families are being stopped from moving their elderly relatives to different residential homes from facilities that they are unhappy with, it has been alleged. The daughter of an 89-year-old woman claims that she and her siblings have been blocked fro...