As you get older, and watch your parents get older, it is inevitable that you’ll start to think about how they will cope with their day-to-day living. As the average living age increases, it is true that more and more of us are living well into our 80s and 90s, and many of our elderly

With more and more focus being placed on improving the quality of life for disabled people all over the country, it’s no surprise that public toilets and bathrooms are also becoming more and more disabled friendly. One of the organisations really pushing for the country-wide improvement of public toilets is the Changing Places Consortium, which

Disabled baths offer a huge variety of advantages to mobility-conscious and elderly and disabled people, including increased physical security. What you might not have considered, however, is that models of these designs can provide both physical and mental benefits, which can really have a dramatic effect on the user’s day-to-day life and drastically improve their

Whether you are a disabled person or you are caring for a person with a disability of any kind, you’ll know how important it is to ensure that your home is properly equipped to deal with specific requirements. The only real problem is that many builders, particularly for older homes, didn’t consider these issues and

The typical vision of a gym or health club, in recent years, has been dominated by fit, young twenty year olds and heavily muscled men in tight shorts, but that is changing completely. Nuffield Health, an organisation which provides and works within gyms, medical centres and hospitals, recently undertook a study which showed that the