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I am sure that each of you has met someone who unselfishly helped you for no other reason than the kindness in their soul. I have received so much help from strangers, especially when I first moved from Russia to the United States. I remember every s...

Patricia Mallory really loves to bowl. Twice a week she is at Warwick Lanes with the Continental League. At home she keeps three balls: one for a dry lane, another for an oily surface and another to knock down spares. Frustrated when Covid-19 closed...

At 16, Pam Jones had an attitude that was obvious to everyone at the job she had been assigned through a high school day release programme. She might have continued that way for ever were it not for Sheila Burrows. The 84-year-old, who was then the s...

This past week, my business partner, Bill Storie, and I were recording some podcasts and the subject of “asking for help” came up. “Oh, that would make a great topic for an article!” I thought. So how then, do you write a helpful article about askin...

The daughter of a 95-year-old care-home patient who tested positive for the coronavirus said her mother had recovered from the potential killer bug against the odds. Lesley Marshall explained her mother, Barbara Fountain, already suffered from asthma...

Mary Darrell longs for life the way it once was. For more than 30 years she and five of her siblings have met every Thursday for dominoes, a meal, and lots of chatter about “the good old days”. That all stopped in March, when Bermuda went into lockdo...

All five seniors’ homes hit by Covid-19 have been declared free of the virus, the Ministry of Health said today. The Matilda Smith Williams Seniors Residence in Devonshire had the most cases, with 28 staff and patients affected. Testing on everyone a...

I believe that, regardless of the circumstances, we ourselves choose the roads we follow. We do it every day with our thoughts, desires and actions. Exactly three years ago I did my first “live” broadcast on Facebook. I was finishing radiation treatm...

Older people were supported through the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic thanks to the generosity of donors and collaborative working, the executive director of Age Concern Bermuda said yesterday. Claudette Fleming explained that an outpouring...

More than 20 million Americans ages 60 to 65 got a rude surprise this year. Many of us, BC — before the novel coronavirus — had counted on a little more time before we had to see ourselves as “old”. Yet in recent weeks, we’ve been shoved towards sene...

Major investments in the island’s care home sector will be needed to cope with a “tsunami” of ageing seniors. Patrice Horner, of specialist financial advice service Senior Solutions, said the development of affordable options to look after the growin...

It is my honour to compose a few words in memory of my mentor and friend J.C. “Kit” Astwood, OBE, who died last week aged 87. I had the pleasure of working with Kit when I was employed by the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce. Like most people when they l...