If you are 65 or over, it is important to spend most of your time in a warm environment during the winter months. There are a number of things you can do to cope in cold weather.
Keep your main living room at around 18-21°C (65-70°F) and the rest of the house at least 16°C (61°F). If you can't heat all the rooms you use, heat the living room during the day and the bedroom just before you go to sleep.
Make sure you are receiving any benefits you are entitled to, such as the Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment.
Regular hot drinks and eating at least one hot meal a day will help keep energy levels up during winter and keep your body warm.
Finally, make sure you get the seasonal flu jab. While not 100% guaranteed, it should reduce your vulnerability to infection...
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'We police it ourselves': Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy :: Abstract
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a 'night‐time economy' (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participants discussed their experiences of the NTE, including violence. A thematic analysis of the transcripts drew out four ways in which NTE violence is discussed in group terms: intergroup violence, intragroup violence, intragroup intervention (escalation) and intragroup intervention (regulation). The analysis reveals that groups ca...
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13 tips on building a coalition to tackle climate change :: How do you foster effective cross-sectoral cooperation to end climate change? Our expert panel suggests you might want to start by watching your languageTerry Townshend, deputy secretary general: policy, The Global Legislators Organisation (Globe International), Beijing, China. @terrytownshendIf you want to get the political establishment on board, watch your language: I think the biggest obstacle to effective climate action has been political, largely driven by ideology and the power of rich corporations over politicians. Political campaign finance reform is absolutely necessary but, until that happens, climate change objectives need to be expressed in language that is not politically divisive. Speak in terms of energy security, risk, air pollution, health and not climate change, green, o...
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Deadly Conflict Spirals Out Of Control In Central African Republic As Foreign Troops Deploy :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Thousands of foreign troops are traveling to the Central African Republic beginning this week in an attempt to stem a cycle of violence and retaliatory attacks that have escalated to catastrophic levels over the past nine months.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-conflict-spirals-out-control-central-african-republic-foreign-troops-deploy-1501358
China's Central Economic Work Conference Preview: 2014 GDP Growth Target, Inflation Target :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>China's leaders will likely gather in Beijing for a closed-door annual economic work conference this week where they will set economic growth targets and policy priorities for 2014, building on the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/china-implementing-third-plenum-reform-agenda-watch-these-6-things-1489890">decisions taken at the Third Plenum</a>.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-central-economic-work-conference-preview-2014-gdp-growth-target-inflation-target-1501494
Shanghai Pollution: Is Smog China's Newest Military Defense Weapon? [PHOTOS] :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Pollution levels in Shanghai reached startling heights last week. Shanghai officials have warned citizens about the recent off-the-charts pollution levels, and ordered a selection of vehicles off the roads in an effort to curb the rampant hazardous air pollutants.</p>
<p>Normally a stunning, lit-up metropolis skyline, Shanghai's famous bund was instead blanked with haze at the end of last week, obstructing the view of the city's tallest buildings. All last week pollution levels hovered over toxic thresholds surpassing the chart's highest value of 500.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/shanghai-pollution-smog-chinas-newest-military-defense-weapon-photos-1501616
Dhaka On The Hudson: Bangladeshis Find Opportunity And Challenges In New York City :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>An increasing proportion of New York City's South Asian communities are comprised of immigrants from Bangladesh, the impoverished, overcrowded nation that borders India to the west and Myanmar (Burma) to the east. Bangladesh was born in the crucible of the 1971 war of independence which transformed East Pakistan into the new state of Bangladesh. Ever since, fleeing poverty and deprivation, millions of Bangladeshis have migrated to the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and elsewhere.</p></div></div></div>
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US Stock Futures Suggest Another Positive Open On A Day Devoid Of Data Releases; FOMC Meeting Next Week Key :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Markets are increasingly expecting the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, to announce a partial reduction, or tapering, of its stimulus program at its two-day meeting next week, if comments by Fed officials in the run-up to the meet are anything to go by.</p>
<p>Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 0.09 percent, while futures on the S&P 500 were up 0.13 percent, and those on the Nasdaq Composite Index were up 0.16 percent.</p></div></div></div>
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Uruguay Offers Bolivia The Construction Of A Waterway That Would Give The Landlocked Country Access To The Atlantic :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Few remember it, but landlocked Bolivia used to have access to the Pacific ocean. The loss of their 400 kilometers (250 miles) of coast to Chile as a consequence of the War of Pacific in 1883 has been Bolivia's largest regret throughout the 20th century. After a few timid attempts to negotiate an exit to the Pacific with neighbors Peru and Chile, Bolivia might finally get sea access again… but to the Atlantic.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/uruguay-offers-bolivia-construction-waterway-would-give-landlocked-country-access-atlantic-1501704
Spain's $1.4B 'Ghost Airport' In Ciudad Real On Sale For Just $140M :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>It cost one billion euros ($1.4 billion) to build, boasts Europe's longest runway, and has a vast terminal building that can handle as many as 10 million travelers per year, but Aeropuerto Central Ciudad Real hasn't seen a single commercial flight since 2011. A larger-than-life symbol of Spain's real estate bubble, the nation's first private international airport hit the auction block Monday with a starting price of just 100 million euros ($140 million), one-tenth the cost of construction.</p></div></div></div>
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