over50s

Financial advisers offer free half-hour chats to over-50s

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Fifty financial advisers team up to offer free half-hour sessions to over-50s with money troubles in cororavirus crisis You can book a ‘no strings attached’ call with a regulated financial adviser at emergencyfinancialadvice.org You can also read answers to common questions and email your own to the site  Service was launched by William Burrows of … Read more

Living alone makes over-50s 30% more likely to be treated in hospital for respiratory diseases

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Living alone makes over-50s 30% more likely to be treated in hospital for respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 Study of more than 4,000 Britons aged over 50 assessed their lifestyle  Compared this with their hospital records to register any hospital admissions  Found those who lived alone are 32 per cent more likely to be sent to hospital   … Read more

Bowel cancer screening for over-50s is still not happening despite health chiefs’ pledge

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The result, in black and white on the letter, was clear: bowel cancer. It was advanced – stage four – meaning it had already spread.  The chance of a cure, I knew, was small. I felt a wash of sadness, and then something else: intense anger. In fact, I was furious. This wasn’t ‘my’ bad … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS: AFH, the firm offering finance for the over-50s

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MIDAS SHARE TIPS: AFH, the firm offering finance for the over-50s, could give YOUR investments a brighter future By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 11 May 2019 | Updated: 16:47 BST, 14 May 2019 The UK is growing older. Around 40 per cent of the British population is over 50 … Read more