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<p>People who are free take tiny everyday freedoms for granted — but we lose it all when we are consigned to a nursing home, even when it's ‘for your own good’. Stock picture: iStock</p>

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Terry Prone: Even great nursing homes involve losing crucial everyday freedoms

Freedom is myriad tiny choices that people who are free take for granted. White or beige coffee filters. Toast or porridge. Driving the long way or the short. Now try living without that autonomy

<p>Ireland’s smallest mammal, the pygmy shrew and the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world</p>

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Not all creatures age at the same rate — here's why

<p> A flat-rate contribution of €5 per home support hour is one of the options being considered by the ESRI. Picture: iStock</p>

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Pensioners could be asked to pay €5 an hour towards homecare

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Donohoe: Delaying decision on State pension age will hit public finances

I could programme myself to allow a robot to care for me in old age

Planning for an ageing Ireland: Loneliness in old age

Eddie Hobbs: We face retirement apartheid if we ignore the pensions problem

Ireland will experience a chronic problem with retirement poverty, and needs a proper study of the crisis as a precursor to engaging in debate on the issue, says Eddie Hobbs            

Tue, 20 Sep, 2016

Ageing With Attitude: Go with Gray and still feel young at 70

Old people’s bodies aren’t more susceptible to disease argues a new book. It’s just the longer you live the more likely you are to pick something up along the way writes Margaret Jennings.

Sat, 18 Jul, 2015

old age

Terry Prone: Even great nursing homes involve losing crucial everyday freedoms

Not all creatures age at the same rate — here's why

Pensioners could be asked to pay €5 an hour towards homecare

Donohoe: Delaying decision on State pension age will hit public finances

I could programme myself to allow a robot to care for me in old age

Planning for an ageing Ireland: Loneliness in old age

Eddie Hobbs: We face retirement apartheid if we ignore the pensions problem

Ageing With Attitude: Go with Gray and still feel young at 70

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Mick Clifford

old age

Terry Prone: Even great nursing homes involve losing crucial everyday freedoms

Not all creatures age at the same rate — here's why

Pensioners could be asked to pay €5 an hour towards homecare

Donohoe: Delaying decision on State pension age will hit public finances

I could programme myself to allow a robot to care for me in old age

Planning for an ageing Ireland: Loneliness in old age

Eddie Hobbs: We face retirement apartheid if we ignore the pensions problem

Ageing With Attitude: Go with Gray and still feel young at 70

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Mick Clifford

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