Month: April 2013

I thought this article from yesterday’s New York Times made interesting reading. It explores how in the US where more and more people are living longer and the stigma of psychological counselling has diminished more older people are turning to counsellors to discuss issues they may have on their mind. This is really encouraging as the article notes that the current older generation were brought […]

This article in the New York Times reports on the costs to care for Americans with dementia. A study has found that the financial burden is at least as high as that of heart disease or cancer, and is probably higher. The journalist reports “Behind the numbers is a sense that the country, facing the aging of the baby boom generation, is unprepared for the […]