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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Is Khloé Kardashian Dating Matt Kemp After Lamar Odom Divorce Papers? :: <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>Lamar Odom might be trying to blame Khloé Kardashian for their now-failed marriage, as reported by <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/12/14/lamar-odom-khloe-kardashian-divorce-dumped/?adid=hero4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TMZ,</a> but the reality TV fashionista seems to have moved on already. The <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/khloe-kardashian-matt-kemp-dating-report-article-1.1547683" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Daily News</a> reported the 29-year-old Kardashian was photographed with baseball player Matt Kemp, and could be dating the Los Angeles Dodger.</p></div></div></div>
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Grandparents 'must get unpaid leave' :: Grandparents should be given the right to request unpaid leave as they are so involved with childcare, according to the TUC.
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Report: Google getting back into the energy data game? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/da7Aqt1SbMQ/
Growing pains for crowdfunding :: Why crowdfunding might not work for the small guy
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SingTel's 3G network starts optimizing itself thanks to an Ericsson upgrade :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/xK21shjckRA/
Twitter (TWTR) Downgraded By Two Analysts :: <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>Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) saw its stock surge tempered by downgrades from two Wall Street analysts Monday.</p></div></div></div>
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Sexism In Science? UK Study Finds Women Scientists Get Fewer Grants, Less Funding Than Male Counterparts :: <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>When it comes to gender inequality in scientific research, the cards are historically and indisputably stacked against women. "Despite efforts to narrow the gap, disparities still exist in hiring, earnings, funding and publishing," Ars Technica <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/women-face-global-disparity-in-scientific-publishing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">noted</a>. With that said, it might come as no surprise that a recent study found that female scientists in the UK whose work involves infectious diseases got fewer grants and received less funding than their male colleagues.</p></div></div></div>
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How UK wonder substance graphene can't and won't benefit UK :: Once a research-rich economy the UK has fallen behind in innovation with UK firms allegedly either incapable or unwilling to exploit inventionsTo see what's really at stake in this week's autumn statement from George Osborne, do yourself a favour: duck out of the Westminster argy-bargy, hit the M1 and don't stop until you've reached Manchester. Then button-hole a physicist into showing you the wonder stuff discovered by two University colleagues just a few years ago.It's called graphene and it's the thinnest material on earth – almost a million times slimmer than a strand of hair. I saw it lying on a wafer of silicon and it resembled nothing so much as breath on a windowpane.Almost everything about graphene begs to be inscribed in legend. There's its discovery: a couple of Russian émigr...
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