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Sarah Whitebloom
Nov 9, 20171 min read
Why does everything have to be so hard? A reader asks OLM Forum
No one has told them what help they could get - in terms of benefits or transport or even a blue badge...they trundle along unnoticed, never
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Sarah Whitebloom
Nov 7, 20171 min read
Did you say you are fed up with rotten care homes, disgusted by attitudes to older people and angry
Whenever I talk to an older person or someone who cares for older people they have a lot to say - an awful lot to say - on all sorts of...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Oct 4, 20173 min read
A Reluctant Daughter's Diary
Had they any idea how long it takes older people to be ready for visitors in the morning? They would have to sleep in the sitting room, full
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Sarah Whitebloom
Sep 27, 20173 min read
Price, peas and persistent salesmen: How my parents finally got a stair lift
There was a marked difference in price
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Sarah Whitebloom
Aug 16, 20172 min read
Bad people rob the elderly - not Powers of Attorney
Personally, I know of three cases in which older people have been fleeced by those in whom they put their trust - their own children
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Sarah Whitebloom
May 26, 20173 min read
The Saga of the Stairlift Part One
My frail and elderly parents – she is 87 and he is 95 - are still just about coping with independent living in their modest 1950s...
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