All posts tagged: older

Older people aged over 55 in UK ‘can’t afford to retire’ | UK | News

Older people aged over 55 in UK ‘can’t afford to retire’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

Britons are considering delaying their retirement due to financial stress, a report has shown. Of those 55-year-olds who plan to work beyond retirement age, 37% say they would do so because they need the income to get by in retirement. This is the second-highest proportion in the G7, according to a study by Fidelity. Additionally, three in ten of the UK’s over-55s describe their retirement planning as poor, compared with 12% in the US. Marianna Hunt, Personal Finance Specialist, Fidelity International, said: “Retirement planning needs to start earlier and prepare people for the possibility that their working lives don’t go exactly to plan. A redundancy, health problem or fall in earnings in your 50s can have a significant impact on your retirement finances.” The report also found that the UK ranks last in G7 for supporting longer working lives. Hunt has stressed the need to “understand how well different countries actually support people to remain in rewarding work later in life”. She said: “What we found is that no country has completely solved the challenge …

Revel review – broken Barbies and a splash of Swan Lake as older dancers limber up

Revel review – broken Barbies and a splash of Swan Lake as older dancers limber up

Published by Sam Flores

The inevitable aches and sprains of an ageing body take on heightened significance for a seasoned dancer turning up to work each day. Revel by Company Chordelia is a whimsical rumination on these changes, and a personal riposte to the fear that you might “make a spectacle of yourself” if you don’t stop at the “right” moment. It is conceived and staged by the artistic director Kally Lloyd-Jones, who performs with the co-creator Steinvör Palsson, a well-known teacher and choreographer in the Scottish dance community. Revel opens on an apparently empty dressing room, until Lloyd-Jones suddenly appears from underneath a discarded puffy dress, and Palsson creeps out of a storage crate. The backstage PA system delivers a message: they have – only! – nine hours to get ready. Long stretch … the pair must prepare properly for their performance. Photograph: Brian Hartley Each dancer’s warm-up manifests differently: Palsson serenely wafts through her qigong routine, while Lloyd-Jones prefers a strenuous running, lunging, shaking approach. They must do their checklist (but first get their reading glasses). Multivitamins? …

iOS 27 on Older iPhones: Should You Update Your Device?

iOS 27 on Older iPhones: Should You Update Your Device?

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The upcoming release of iOS 27 introduces a range of updates designed to enhance performance, battery efficiency, and the overall user experience for iPhone 11, 12, and 13 models. While these updates are promising, deciding whether to upgrade immediately requires careful consideration. The video below from Daniel About Tech explores the key improvements, potential drawbacks, […] The post iOS 27 on Older iPhones: Should You Update Your Device? appeared first on Geeky Gadgets. Source link

Dining across the divide: ‘He looked like a Green voter. As you get older you realise it’s unicorn politics’

Dining across the divide: ‘He looked like a Green voter. As you get older you realise it’s unicorn politics’

Published by Sam Flores

Henry, 33, Manchester Occupation Waiter and musician Voting record Green. He describes himself as “left leaning” Amuse bouche Jumped into a canal for one of his music videos. In January Lynn, 61, Bury Occupation Office management Voting record Conservative in the UK. Democrat when she lived in the US Amuse bouche Won the French prize at school, though she’s rubbish at French For starters Lynn The restaurant has beautiful views of rolling hills. I had roast chicken and potatoes, panna cotta and a couple of glasses of red wine. Henry I ordered an old fashioned, and some white wine with the meal. I had a lovely peach salad, then a pizza. I told Lynn I grew up in Dubai, went to a French school, then uni in Paris with my final year in Bristol, which was my first taste of life in the UK. Lynn Henry looks like a Green voter: flip-flops, pink trousers, bushy beard, earrings. My daughter might have voted Green when she was 16, because you think everything is free, but as …

7 Everyday Behaviors People Who Get Meaner As They Get Older Usually Refuse To Tolerate

7 Everyday Behaviors People Who Get Meaner As They Get Older Usually Refuse To Tolerate

Published by Jenni Sidey

People who become meaner as they get older weren’t always mean in the past. After enough bad experiences, they don’t want to waste any more time on things that they don’t think are important. With age, they also gain the wisdom and confidence to know that they have too much going on in their lives to worry about being nice to people who don’t deserve their kindness. Sometimes, they start to prioritize themselves so much that they can no longer handle trivial things most people just deal with every day. People who get meaner as they get older often refuse to tolerate behaviors others deal with every day: 1. Someone being rude Dean Mitchell from Getty Images Signature It’s incredibly frustrating when someone is rude to others right in front of you. Most people don’t want to allow that behavior to happen, but they may feel awkward getting in the middle. People who get meaner as they get older don’t feel that way. They aren’t afraid to snap back at whoever is being rude and …

Older male actors are being hung out to dry – just look at Robert De Niro

Older male actors are being hung out to dry – just look at Robert De Niro

Published by Daniella Wilson

How did Robert De Niro end up at The Whisper Man? De Niro, the man who personified the gold standard of screen acting for the last three decades of the 20th century, has already survived one career slump, that wayward spell in the aughts that saw him terrorise a CGI moose in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, sleep with the fishes in Shark Tale, and, of course, meet the dubiously amusing Fockers, both big and Little. Consensus agrees that his career started to uptick in the years since, thanks partly through his collaborations with auteur filmmakers David O’Russell (2012’s Silver Linings Playbook; 2015’s Joy), Nancy Meyers (2015’s The Intern), and, most convincingly, Martin Scorsese (2019’s The Irishman and 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon). In the two Scorsese films particularly – re-activating a collaboration that had decades earlier yielded career-best work for both parties – De Niro was an artist reborn, producing sophisticated character work with rich, heavyweight material. Really, though, these were the anomalies. The majority of De Niro’s projects have been forgettable, …

Why older men may be particularly vulnerable to suicide in Singapore

Why older men may be particularly vulnerable to suicide in Singapore

Published by Sam Flores

WHAT CAN BE DONE If older men experience emotional distress differently, experts said support must also be offered differently. The pattern is reflected in SOS’s data. While women accounted for about one-third of suicide deaths in 2024, they made up 62.5 per cent of suicide-related calls and texts received by the organisation. SUSS’ Dr Ko said outreach efforts should be designed around how men naturally build relationships. “Women talk face to face but men talk shoulder to shoulder,” she said, explaining that men often connect through shared activities rather than conversations. Rather than expecting men to join traditional support groups, she said programmes centred on practical activities may feel more natural, allowing friendships and trust to develop over time. Dr Ko pointed to the Men’s Shed model as an example where older men meet regularly to work on practical projects and spend time together.  She said similar approaches could help reduce loneliness by creating opportunities for men to connect in ways they find more comfortable.  Ms Jennie Wan, director of mental health at Montfort Care, …

biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited idea has been making a strong comeback. It helps us explain scientific observations that according to standard evolutionary theory should be impossible. I’m referring to Lamarckism, named after theoretical proposals from French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1809. Lamarckism stands for the hypothesis that parents of a given organism may acquire or improve certain characteristics during their lifetimes in response to the demands of their environment. And they then somehow transmit those characteristics to their offspring, making those better able to cope with the same demands too. Lamarck sought to explain why organisms and their environments fit so well together, and how organisms change over time, as observed in the fossil record. Of course, an alternative explanation was provided by Charles Darwin (and others) half a century later. Darwin’s ideas were built around natural selection, which says that some individuals within a species are born with differences that lead them to perform better and therefore …

5 Marvelous Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Starring Older Characters

5 Marvelous Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Starring Older Characters

Published by Jenni Sidey

Why should kids get all the fun? Older characters in novels of all genres are having their time in the sun right now. (Hope they’re wearing a wide-brimmed hat.) But excellent oldsters have always been prevalent in books, including the five awesome novels below, which even feature a few kicking butt! Which reminds me of my favorite older character in SFF: octogenarian and former superspy Edie Banister, from Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. But I mention that novel all the time, so think of it as a bonus recommendation! The Wanderers by Meg Howrey The three main characters of Howrey’s third novel are training to be the crew of the first-ever mission to Mars. But first, they must spend seventeen months in a simulation of their mission, which puts a strain on them all. And if they start cracking under the pressure of a replication of the long journey, how will they ever take the actual trip? Burning Roses by S. L. Huang This fairy tale novella features Red Riding Hood and the Archer, who have …

Comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the sun

Comet 3I/ATLAS is older than the sun

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our solar system. As only the third known interstellar object to pass by Earth, the frigid, dusty rock has already provided researchers with new and unexpected data about deep space. But in addition to recently learning about the comet’s surprisingly alcohol-laden, ice volcano-covered composition, astronomers now say they have a better sense of its age. According to chemical traces detailed in a study published today in the journal Nature Astronomy, 3I/ATLAS is very, very old. “3I/ATLAS is a really exciting opportunity to probe the composition of another planetary system, one that formed long before our Sun and solar system even existed,” Rosemary Dorsey, an …