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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Gold: All Eyes on Federal Reserve December Meeting, For Stimulus Reduction Talk And 2014 Outlook :: <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>The gold market may hold its collective breath this week as investors mine for hints – for anything at all related to tapering – from the Federal Reserve's press conference on Wednesday, which comes after the two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting.</p>
<p> The anticipated news conference is the last major market trigger for gold, in its worst year for several years, before an uncertain 2014. Gold investors may look to consolidate positions and calculate returns before the end of the calendar year.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/gold-all-eyes-federal-reserve-december-meeting-stimulus-reduction-talk-2014-outlook-1510898
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url: http://www.ibtimes.com/vancouvers-skyrocketing-housing-prices-are-mainland-chinese-investors-blame-1510934
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url: http://www.ibtimes.com/3-challenges-michelle-bachelet-will-face-new-president-chile-1511036
December FOMC Meeting Preview: Higher QE Taper Odds, But Fed Most Likely To Hold Fire :: <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></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>Healthy job gains, a falling unemployment rate, strong consumer spending and a budget deal likely to win final passage this week have increased the chances of a quicker start to tapering. While it remains a close call, most economists do not expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to pull the trigger at its policy meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, due partly to a below-target inflation rate and the expiration of jobless benefits.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/december-fomc-meeting-preview-higher-qe-taper-odds-fed-most-likely-hold-fire-1511124
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url: http://www.ibtimes.com/antibacterial-soap-body-wash-under-fda-scrutiny-over-effectiveness-health-risks-1511302
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Beatles bootlegs out on iTunes :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/FkOOZNiLZyg/index.html
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