Do you often miss bits of conversations? Always turning up the TV? Or maybe you experience ringing in your ears after listening to loud music? ‘After the age of 40, it’s normal to start losing hearing

Why protecting your ears is more important than ever

Millions of families severely underestimate the true price of care. Six in ten over-45s think the average cost of funding a care-home place themselves is less than £60,000; the actual figure is £66,50

Long gone are the days when patients only came to see me because they had a new illness. These days, much of my work is about picking up risk factors or long-term health conditions and working with my

Do you want to reach a ripe old age? Being alive and kicking in your 80s and 90s might seem appealing, but how many ‘good years’ you have later in life is dependent on healthy ageing. Older people are

About 55 million people worldwide have received a diagnosis of dementia, a condition that will affect about 1.4 million people in the UK alone by 2040. The biggest risk factor? Being over sixty-five.