Give patients with late-life depression better access to therapy, experts say
Elderly patients with depression should be given better access to therapy and community activities instead of antidepressants, researchers have said.
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EU carers ‘must be allowed to come to UK’ after Brexit
EU carers must be allowed to continue coming to the UK for work regardless of what happens with Brexit, a charity has said.
The Angus ‘message boy’ who has no plans to hang up his delivery bag as he gets set to turn 90 on New Year’s Day
He is the ‘message boy’ who is still making deliveries in his 90th year.
Dancing Crieff carer has talent recognised with national award
Colleagues have paid tribute to a dancing Crieff carer who has been recognised with a national award.
Patients forced to queue out in cold to get flu jag in Perth, resident claims
A patient has hit out after elderly residents were left to queue in the cold outside a Perth doctors’ surgery to get their flu jabs.
VIDEO: Watch love-struck OAP couple marry in ‘unique, lovely’ Dundee sheltered housing ceremony
A Dundee couple have proven it's never too late to find love after tying the knot at their sheltered housing complex in a one-of-a-kind ceremony.
Home sweet home: Dundee man to celebrate 90th year living at same city abode
A Dundee man will today celebrate his 90th birthday in the home he has lived in all his life.
Man had elderly mother “backed into a corner” and was abusive
A Dundee man blamed “interfering neighbours” for calling the police after he behaved in an abusive manner towards his 81-year-old mother.
Dundee’s rate of falls among elderly rises
More elderly people are injured in falls in Dundee than almost anywhere else in Scotland.
Security warning after “loathsome” thefts from elderly women’s homes in Dundee
A 98-year-old woman was one of the victims of a "particularly loathsome" series of thefts in Dundee during the past week.