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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Best After-Christmas Sales 2013: 30 Deals And Discounts To Shop Now, Dec. 26 :: <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>Christmas has come and gone; You've collected all of your gift cards, decided you'll exchange that gift from your crazy aunt and still have your eye on that special item that wasn't under your tree this year. So, what's left to do? Shop the after-Christmas sales.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/best-after-christmas-sales-2013-30-deals-discounts-shop-now-dec-26-1520118
What Is Boxing Day? 3 Facts You Need To Know About The British Holiday :: <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>While most Americans are left recovering from Christmas festivities on Dec. 26, the British and Commonwealth countries continue to relish in the holiday season. Boxing Day or the day-after-Christmas holiday is a national holiday in the U.K. where families eat leftovers or head to the stores to nab the latest deals, much like Black Friday.</p>
<p><strong>Why is it called Boxing Day?</strong></p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/what-boxing-day-3-facts-you-need-know-about-british-holiday-1519950
China Confirms One-Child Policy Revision In Q1 2014 :: <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 major revision to its infamous one-child policy is set to partially take effect in the first quarter of next year, the family-planning commission said late on Monday.</p>
<p>The policy change will first take effect in some areas of China, Yang Wenzhuang, director at the National Health and Family Planning Commission, told Xinhua, the state news agency. The change would allow millions of Chinese families to have two children, the <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1389617/chinas-one-child-policy-change-set-q1-2014" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South China Morning Post</a> reported on Tuesday.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/china-confirms-one-child-policy-revision-q1-2014-1519758
NASA Successfully Completes Repairs At International Space Station With Christmas Eve Spacewalk [Video] :: <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></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>Spacewalkers on Tuesday treated the International Space Station, or ISS, with a Christmas gift, a new ammonia-pump module that would fully restore the station's critical coolant system.</p>
<p>Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio completed the mission of replacing a refrigerator-sized faulty coolant pump with a spare unit in two spacewalks conducted on Dec. 22 and Dec. 24.</p>
<p>"Houston, you got yourself a new pump module, congratulations," one of the spacewalkers radioed to NASA's Mission Control in Houston, Texas, after making the final electrical connections.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/nasa-successfully-completes-repairs-international-space-station-christmas-eve-spacewalk-video
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U.N. To Double Its Peacekeeping Force In South Sudan, Amid Reports Of Mass Graves And Escalation In Violence; Government Forces Retake Key Town Bor :: <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></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 United Nations Security Council, or UNSC, on Tuesday approved a proposal to send additional troops to South Sudan, nearly doubling the strength of its peacekeeping force in the world's youngest nation, amid reports of mass graves and thousands of civilian deaths.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/un-double-its-peacekeeping-force-south-sudan-amid-reports-mass-graves-escalation-violence-government
U.S. Embassy In Afghanistan Hit On Christmas Day :: <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>Rockets hit the U.S. Embassy compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Christmas Day, embassy officials said, adding that no Americans were injured in the attacks.</p>
<p>According to an Associated Press report, citing an embassy official who spoke on condition of anonymity, the attack happened around 6:40 a.m. local time on Wednesday, and "two rounds of indirect fire impacted the U.S. Embassy compound." Indirect fire refers to either rocket attacks or mortar fire.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-embassy-afghanistan-hit-christmas-day-1520070
The price of a mega-breach: Target call centers stay open for Christmas :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/QZfdKJ9RkMI/
China Unicom launches a cloud of its own :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Z51Xk6LXago/
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OPEC's only female minister :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZR8SF1AZiO0/spc-leading-women-alison-madueke-1.cnn.html
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AUDIO: Ringing the changes at old foundry :: Britain's oldest manufacturing company - the 430-year-old Whitechapel Bell Foundry - has just started selling online.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25492222#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
AUDIO: Investors hope for Happy Days :: A new musical version of Happy Days is the first major theatrical production to be backed through "equity crowdfunding", according to its producer Amy Anzel.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25492221#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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