What the papers said in the week ending 23 April 2022
‘They’re not coming to me because they know I am 100 and I’m not really worth it any more’. These are the words of Irene Silsby as she lay on the floor of her nursing home with a fractured pelvis, waiting for six hours before an ambulance came to take her to hospital. We know little of the 100 years that she has lived before that dreadful day, but these words and the photograph which appeared in the national press bite deeply into our hearts. They will not be forgotten and we must be shamed to realise how poorly we have protected the services for the most vulnerable of older people: Woman waits six hours for ambulance after fall on her 100th birthday | NHS | The Guardian
Other older people gain recognition through other activities:
- Picture of the day: ‘Glide of a lifetime’ » Newsworks
- Protester convicted of trespass over Just Stop Oil action in Essex | Just Stop Oil | The Guardian
- ‘We have to go’: nursing home residents await evacuation in Donbas | Ukraine | The Guardian
- ‘They can’t all go to my son’: the bookshop selling one man’s lifetime collection & More The Guardian News Here – 123hindinews
While Liam Gallagher refuses treatment for pathology he deems to label him old: Hips don’t lie, Liam Gallagher – there’s no shame in getting them fixed | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
And some will die before they are old, or become old before their time: Women in England’s poorest areas die younger than in most OECD countries | Life expectancy | The Guardian
The war in Ukraine wages still and people will die heroes: Ukraine vows Mariupol troops will ‘fight to the end’ as surrender deadline passes | Ukraine | The Guardian
- The Churches have recognition for taking a stance: PMQs live: Boris Johnson refuses to apologise to archbishop of Canterbury after criticising his stance on Rwanda policy – as it happened | Politics | The Guardian
Humanity must be at the core of Britain’s asylum policy | Letters | The Guardian
But The Salvation Army is found wanting in its service to clients: Salvation Army in UK accused of ‘rogue landlord’ attitude | UK news | The Guardian
The extent of covid’s reach and consequences are registered: Seven in 10 people in England have had Covid, research shows | Coronavirus | The Guardian
- Disruption to diabetes care during Covid threatens thousands, charity warns | Diabetes | The Guardian
- Women struggling to ‘sleep and work competently’ amid England’s HRT shortages | Menopause | The Guardian
- The Guardian view on charities and poverty: running on empty | Editorial | The Guardian
Science brings some new hope: Discovery of bacteria linked to prostate cancer hailed as potential breakthrough | Prostate cancer | The Guardian
Study reveals clues to cancer causes and potential for personalised treatment | Warrington Guardian
A list of books for the Queen’s Jubilee was bound to be questioned by some: The God of Small Things to Shuggie Bain: the Queen’s jubilee book list | Books | The Guardian
While the limits of classifications raise a smile: neither fish nor fowl – sweet nor cake. What can the computers make of this wonderful various world: Flapjacks are too chewy to be taxed as cakes, tribunal rules | Law | The Guardian
David Jolley, Chair of Christians on Ageing in a personal capacity
