For much of the world, technology has become so intertwined with our day-to-day lives that it influences everything. Our relationships, the care we seek, how we work, what we do to protect ourselves, even the things we choose to learn and when. It would be understandable to read this as a dystopian nightmare conjured up by E.M. Forster or Ernest Cline. Yet, we are on the verge of something fundamentally different. We've caught glimpses of a future that values autonomy, empathy, and individual expertise.
My 77-year-old mother wanted sympathy, the kind Mark believed was for the weak: offers of a cup of a tea, a hug. Long ago, decades even, she had learned not to seek it from him. With him, she was a trooper. At 62 she had retired and followed him up to a high desert mountain, 6,500ft (1,981 metres) in north-east California.
Coroner Mary Hassell wrote in a Prevention of Future Death Report: It is well recognised that the admission of an elderly person to hospital can be risky and should only be undertaken if really necessary. These days, a long wait on a hospital trolley is predictable. Even without that, the elderly are known often to decondition quickly. The coroner added that district nurses had not dressed Mrs Fitzpatrick's wound frequently enough and sometime they had not gone to see her or change her sacral dressing.
Top Boy star and rapper Dave spoke with pride after his mother's meaningful mission to help elderly patients was expanded across hospitals in south London. The scheme has now been launched at Epsom Hospital in Surrey where scores more vulnerable people will be aided. Brit Award winner Dave, 27, real name David Omoregie, was born in Brixton and plays terrifying gangster Modie in the gritty Netflix crime drama.
A friends' trip to a remote cabin in the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky nearly turned deadly, local rescuers said Friday, after two women took an extended soak in a hot tub and developed hyperthermia, the opposite of hypothermia, in which the body is overheated and cannot cool. The long period spent Wednesday night in the swirling, heated waters was unintentional, rescuers in rural Wolfe County said.
Granddaughter of Patrick Barrett faced heartbreak due to serious failings by a lawyer, preventing her from accessing funds to pay nursing home bills. Patrick Barrett, who suffered from dementia, owed up to €19,000 in fees, but compassion from nursing home operators allowed him to stay despite financial struggles.
Cruising with my grandparents on a massive ship meant prioritizing their needs, slowing down, and utilizing accessibility services to improve our overall experience.
It would have been nice to have more downtime in our schedule, too. I underestimated how exhausting the itinerary would be for my grandma.
"We were out there kind of to celebrate [that] we can still hike and we were enjoying the wildflowers and everything, and I don't know, at about three and a half miles, Elaine just took off like an energizer bunny, which is pretty common," Durgin tells ABC 7.
According to a freedom of information request by the Liberal Democrats, some patients went 10 days before getting a space on a ward, demonstrating extreme delays in hospital admissions.