Homes designed to improve wellbeing

Homes designed to improve wellbeing

PegasusLife has hired award-winning architect Sarah Wrigglesworth to incorporate wellbeing in the designs of its over-50s developments. JANE SLADE went to meet her to discover her secret formula Designing homes for older people is not just about bricks and mortar. As...
Top holidays for solo travellers

Top holidays for solo travellers

GILLY PICKUP recommends some great holidays for older travellers travelling on their own and offers tips to avoiding the dreaded single-room supplement So, you’re going on holiday alone. Perhaps it is for the first time and you feel a little apprehensive or you are a...
Avoid being lonely in later life

Avoid being lonely in later life

As a senior government minister urges families to help tackle loneliness in older people, retirees in Worcester are taking matters into their own hands Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for action to prevent loneliness in older people saying that by the end of...
Why we moved before we had to

Why we moved before we had to

It was a love of travel that propelled Hugh and Isabel Murray from their Elizabethan farmhouse in Hampshire to a retirement apartment at Grove Place, an Elizabethan mansion in Romsey Retired management consultant Hugh, 74 and his wife Isabel 67, were finding their...
New retirement village offering 47 homes in Derbyshire

New retirement village offering 47 homes in Derbyshire

Seventh retirement village underway for luxury house builder Richmond Villages has started the first stage of construction at its newest £37 million development in the quintessential English village of Aston-on-Trent in South Derbyshire. The first owners are due to...