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.
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url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25739565#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Smartphone wallet backed by banks :: Five UK lenders are to add a facility allowing users to make instant payments via their smartphone apps later this year.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25727333#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
What Are The Most Popular Wine Grapes In The World? :: <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 the University of Adelaide in South Australia has compiled what it's calling the first-ever catalog of the world's wine grape regions and varieties, providing a comprehensive breakdown of the industry that covers approximately 99 percent of global wine production.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/what-are-most-popular-wine-grapes-world-1540272
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Profile: Mary Barra, General Motors :: Mary Barra takes the wheel at General Motors
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<p dir="ltr">But here's the kicker - those thousand cars will be <a href="http://jalopnik.com/there-are-only-1-000-copies-of-the-2015-subaru-wrx-sti-1501044447" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the only ones available in the classic Subaru theme</a> (WR Blue, gold wheels).</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/subaru-will-make-thousand-limited-stis-1539984
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url: http://www.ibtimes.com/facing-amazon-amzn-fight-flight-or-ebay-small-retailers-1540228
How The Omnibus Spending Bill Restricts Abortion Funding :: <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>Congress unveiled its comprehensive $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill on Tuesday, containing many familiar pro-life clauses restricting the use of federal funding for abortions.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-omnibus-spending-bill-restricts-abortion-funding-1540190
Child benefit key to tax deadline :: Some 110,000 higher-earning parents who receive child benefit payments face a fine if they fail to register for, and return, tax self-assessment forms.
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Twitter Users Blame Aliens For New Mexico Shooting At Berrendo Middle School :: <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>Leave it to <a href="http://twitter.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> to make hurtful puns after at least two victims were wounded in a shooting at a New Mexico middle school on Tuesday. Two children were airlifted to a hospital in Texas after a student opened fire before classes started at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, and now some <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=New Mexico aliens&src=typd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitterati</a> are making jokes about aliens causing the sad event.</p></div></div></div>
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Who Is The Roswell School Shooter? Police Identify 12-Year-Old Boy As Sole Gunman :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Early Tuesday morning, at the beginning of the school day in Roswell, N.M., a student walked into the Berrendo Middle School gymnasium with a shotgun and opened fire, hitting and critically wounding two fellow students.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/who-roswell-school-shooter-police-identify-12-year-old-boy-sole-gunman-1540212
Manchester United Transfer News: 4 Players Who Could Be Leaving Old Trafford In January :: <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>David Moyes may still be struggling to bring in the players that he is fully aware he requires to boost an ailing squad, but progress appears to have been made on trying to ship out some of the club's under-performers. There was much surprise that Moyes didn't look to stamp his authority on the club after replacing Sir Alex Ferguson this summer by moving on players and instead decided he required more time to properly evaluate his new squad.</p>
<p>However, he now looks to have made some judgments. </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/manchester-united-transfer-news-4-players-who-could-be-leaving-old-trafford-january-1540196
Oklahoma Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional By State Judge :: <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 federal judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, reports the <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/oklahoma-ban-on-gay-marriage-ruled-unconstitutional/article_85e88366-7d68-11e3-ab41-001a4bcf6878.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tulsa World</a>. </p>
<p>"The court holds that Oklahoma's constitutional amendment limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," U.S. District Court Judge Terence Kern wrote.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/oklahoma-gay-marriage-ban-ruled-unconstitutional-state-judge-1540198
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The Upside of Starting Your Career in a Recession :: In at least one sense, people who graduate in a tough economy are better offread more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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