Comfort and joy

After Fiona Phillips’ devastating dementia diagnosis, she wrote a letter to her children detailing everything she hoped never to forget. Here, Ronnie Dean does the same…

With latest statistics showing that cancer will affect half of us, Lisa Ellson, 53, from Skipton, North Yorkshire, shares her story and how her own diagnosis led her to create something special to help people everywhere…

Each month a reader writes to a loved one in the afterlife and Mandy Masters tunes in to share their reply. This month Sophey Walsh writes to her nan Penny

RETIREMENT, for Maisie, had exceeded all expectations so far. In the year since she’d stopped working, she had established a new daily routine that involved lots of walking, reading and meeting friend

Three women express their gratitude towards the unsung heroes who changed their lives for the better

FIONA’S glad the traffic’s in her favour as she pulls up at her mum’s house and hurries in to fetch her. She checks her watch as she unlocks the front door and gives it a shove. It’s three fifty-five