Covid restrictions kiboshed our annual crumbly shindig. But do politicians realise the cost of lost connection, asks community voluntary worker Stewart Dakers

We are already too familiar with the toxic effects of being isolated from our fellow humans, says voluntary worker Stewart Dakers

During lockdown, the internet has been the big winner, even among us crumblies. But can we wean ourselves off it, asks voluntary worker Stewart Dakers

Ministers are clueless about older people’s needs - as their new immigration rules to keep out ‘low-skilled’ care workers show, says community worker Stewart Dakers

Older people disengaging from democracy forget how much we’ve gained from it, says community voluntary worker Stewart Dakers

All of us commit unconditionally at first, but then resentment sets in. Care needs to be delivered by paid professionals, says 80-year-old community worker Stewart Dakers

After years in their elderly person’s unit, this proud pair have decided to cut themselves off. Sound familiar?, asks voluntary worker Stewart Dakers

I will not face the dying of my light with rage, but with grace, says community worker Stewart Dakers

Working with older people, I know what’s in store for me as I enter another decade. I just hope I’ll know when I need to let go, writes |

Games such as cribbage, pontoon and shove ha’penny could take us back to the school yard and rattle our marbles

Social prescribing allows GPs to offer activities and support for older people. They just need to know what’s available

I have lived unnoticed. I have fought no wars, delivered no speeches, mounted no podiums and not hit a century. Now I can make amends

Tracey Crouch is up against the powerful vested interests and techie elite that have broken down our communities and created this modern disease

Cecil rejected the community centre Christmas lunch last year, as a gathering of lonely old losers. Now he realises that a bit of goodwill can go a long way

By morphing from carer to cared-for, actors in a powerful new play remind us that we are all ageing – and deserve love and respect

In public I am in the way, in private I screw up the logistics of life, my mind becoming my enemy

Our tireless volunteering and caring roles holds together the social fabric; targeting our benefits would jeopardise this

The decision to leave the EU was won by a section of the population that was effectively disqualified by its declining competence

The grey vote is critical, and the prospect of independence takes us back to the good old days when we did things ‘our way’, unaided by Johnny Foreigner

While many of my older chums are renters, we are part of the generation who failed to challenge the toxic assumptions that saw homes become commodities