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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...

March was a stark month for Bermuda. It was startling that a number of nursing homes had Covid-19 cases and some were spread by care workers on shift work at more than one home. Many well-trained and hard-working nurses and nursing aides work at mor...

A care home recovering from an outbreak of Covid-19 has a new executive director who is no stranger to a crisis. April Augustus will take the helm at Westmeath Nursing and Residential Home on Monday, after a year-long stint as executive director at ...

I learnt a long time ago how to quickly rebuild my life whenever plans collapsed suddenly and everything changed — sometimes in an instant. The first reaction is shock, horror, disbelief and panic. I’ve managed to quickly cope with all this. I do no...

A drop in motivation to exercise has hit personal trainers who shifted classes online during the Covid-19 restrictions. Freelance trainers are struggling to keep their businesses afloat after weeks of pandemic protection rules. Frances Smith, 25, sai...

Dear Sir, In the wake of Nurses Month and the Bermuda Day holiday weekend, I am reminded of my outing with two very special retired Bermudian nurses a few months ago. On a sunny afternoon in January, Gladys Simmons Barney and Grace deShield Washingto...

The number of emergency calls involving people with dementia has risen during the Covid-19 crisis, a charity for sufferers and their caregivers has warned. Action on Alzheimer’s and Dementia, which has stopped its usual programmes for the “foreseeabl...

No more care home cases of Covid-19 have been found after testing across the sector was completed at the weekend, the Ministry of Health said last night. A spokeswoman added that the results for all 21 homes had now come back and the number of cases ...

New cases of Covid-19 have been found in Bermuda’s care homes, the Government has revealed. Kim Wilson, the health minister, said that a total of 44 cases of the virus had been detected after tests at care homes — three more than on Monday. It was no...

Meals on Wheels has been given a little more fuel in its tank thanks to Rubis Energy Bermuda. The company announced that it had donated $1,500 in fuel to the charity to help their volunteers deliver meals to seniors community. Anguel Anguelov, genera...

Pembroke residents who have hit hard times because of the Covid-19 pandemic have been offered some relief by the area’s parish council. A spokeswoman for Pembroke Parish Council said the body had set up a $6,000 pandemic relief fund to help seniors a...