Topic: Elder care
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‘We showed strength and resilience’: The first mosques to offer Covid vaccines
In early 2021, UK mosques began setting themselves up as vaccine centres for the first time, helping fight disinformation in their communities
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The NHS winter crisis shows why Labour needs to urgently reform social care
As a doctor in elderly medicine, I have seen patients wait weeks to be discharged — sometimes exacerbating their healthcare issues
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Assisted dying has MPs more reflective than ever. Here’s what they’re saying
Only one Muslim MP has publicly backed Kim Leadbeater’s bill, with six saying they oppose it. Privately, many in the Commons are conflicted
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We’ve not heard the last of Labour’s anti-austerity rebels
Dozens of Keir Starmer’s MPs abstained on a vote to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners, exposing a rift in the party
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On the economy, Starmer has boxed himself in. That isn’t (just) the Tories’ fault
The prime minister is warning of hard times to come, but he can’t blame everything on his predecessors
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Some friendships last only a season, while others bloom with a lifetime of possibilities
As we age our lives naturally become littered with former friendships, but how should we process this loss?
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I was raised to believe family is everything — but a communal life is almost impossible to lead
My Sudanese heritage says I should take care of my mother and my elders. But I feel something akin to guilt about choosing to live thousands of miles away from those who raised me
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‘Sending money to family abroad is an obligation, but sometimes it makes me angry’
Around the world, a billion people pay or receive remittances. But now a younger generation is questioning the practice
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Inside the Muslim community group bridging the digital divide
In the UK, more than 10 million people — many of them from ethnic minorities — lack basic digital skills. Now, help is at hand
