Tag: healthy ageing
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Small Ways to Sleep Better After Sixty
There is an odd little myth that follows us into later life: that older people simply need less sleep. It is not quite true. You need just as much good rest as you ever did — usually seven to eight hours — but getting it can become a trickier business. Sleep grows lighter, more easily…
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Staying Steady on Your Feet
There is a small moment that arrives, quietly, for a great many of us as the years add up. You rise from your favourite chair, the one you have risen from ten thousand times before, and for just a heartbeat the room seems to sway — as though the floor has taken a breath. It…