Want to live longer? Get a dog. Just don’t walk it to the cake shop, says 84-year-old Norman Lazarus

HEALTH The Lazarus Strategy : How To Age Well And Wisely by Norman Lazarus (Yellow Kite £14.99, 192 pp)   The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, as W. C. Fields observed, ‘a man is lucky to get out of it alive’. When the coronavirus arrived, for example, and volunteers were needed to … Read more

Family hold up messages of love and support to their 84-year-old grandmother through her window

This is the heartwarming moment a family pulled a Love Actually-inspired stunt at their grandmother’s care home during the coronavirus lockdown. Joyce Giles, 84, is usually visited by Joanne Madden, 49, and her family a few times at week at her care home in Bolton, Greater Manchester. But last weekend, they figured out a way … Read more