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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Volvo To Sell Its Rental Unit To California-Based Investment Firm For $1.1 Billion :: <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>Swedish truck maker Volvo on Tuesday said it has agreed to sell its machine rental business in North America to U.S. private equity firm Platinum Equity for about 7.2 billion Swedish kronor ($1.1 billion).</p>
<p>The deal is part of Volvo's restructuring plan to focus on its core business and boost profitability and earnings across the group, as it competes for the number one spot with Germany's Daimler.</p></div></div></div>
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Mandela's Memorial Service: World Leaders Converge In Rare Show Of Solidarity :: <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>Heads of state from around the world, royals, celebrities and tens of thousands of South Africans have converged on FNB Stadium in Johannesburg's Soweto neighborhood to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, the world's foremost anti-apartheid leader and a global reconciliation icon, at a memorial service on Tuesday.</p>
<p>In an unparalleled show of international unity, President Barack Obama shared a stage with several other world leaders, including Raul Castro, the president of Cuba, a U.S. foe for more than half a century.</p></div></div></div>
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Secrets Of Next-Door Starburst Galaxy M82 Revealed In Images From New Green Bank Telescope :: <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>Astronomers have used new, high-frequency capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, or GBT, to capture secrets of a starburst galaxy, called M82, in the Milky Way's neighborhood.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/secrets-next-door-starburst-galaxy-m82-revealed-images-new-green-bank-telescope-1502034
Ancient Crater Could Explain Moon's Interior And The History Of Its Evolution :: <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>A team of researchers from Brown University and the University of Hawaii have found some mineralogical surprises in the Moon's largest impact crater that could help uncover secrets about the moon's evolution.</p>
<p>Researchers have used data from India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter and found a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole Aitken, or SPA, basin, a huge impact crater on the far side of the moon.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/ancient-crater-could-explain-moons-interior-history-its-evolution-1501956
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