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I’m fortunate to have two part time jobs. I work as a research assistant at the University of Edinburgh with “bold” (Bringing out Leaders in Dementia) …

The corona virus pandemic has changed the world as never seen before. It has meant that the Scottish Government has had to move quickly to put plans …

Around 1998 I was a home visitor for a project supporting older people. As part of this I visited a woman who I’ll call Edie. Edie had married late in …

Since the start of the lock-down we’ve had a special kind of music in our house. Not special because of its genre or style. Not reliant on well …

During the last few months amongst other national changes, we’ve started to use words and phrases that we’ve never used before and as is so often the …

‘It’s only us mum.’  ‘How did you get in son?’  ‘There is a keybox outside your door, we insert the code and use the key that’s in it.’  ‘Oh well, …