The physical and mental health of millions of older Brits has deteriorated over the past year of lockdowns, with more than a quarter saying they can no longer walk as far as they used to and almost a fifth feeling less confident leaving the house alone, according to new research.
The Charity Director of Age U.K. says that encouraging older people to remain in their homes, away from their families and from the wider community, has left “deep physical and emotional scars“. The Glasgow Times has the story.
People reported being less steady on their feet, struggling to manage the stairs and feeling less independent since the start of the crisis, according to polling for Age U.K.
Some 27% of adults aged 60 and over said they could no longer walk as far, while 25% said they were in more pain.
It also found evidence of accelerated cognitive decline, with more than a fifth (22%) of respondents saying they were finding it harder to remember things.
The charity fears the adverse effects may prove long-lasting and in some cases be irreversible, heaping pressure on NHS and social care services over the coming years.
Some 1,487 people aged 60 and over in the U.K. were polled by Kantar Polling between January 28th and February 11th, during the third national lockdown.
Extrapolated to the U.K. population, the findings suggest that millions of older people have seen their health decline following multiple lockdowns, social distancing measures, the loss of routines and support and limited access to services.
The charity also found that some people living with a mental health condition saw their symptoms exacerbated, while others were feeling depressed or anxious for the first time.
More than a third (36%) of respondents said they were feeling more anxious since the start of the pandemic, and 43% said they were less motivated to do the things they enjoy. …
People also gave more detail about their struggles through an online survey, which received 14,840 responses.
They spoke of crying daily due to loneliness, feeling like a prisoner and having had their confidence and purpose “sapped”.
Caroline Abrahams, Age U.K.’s Charity Director, said it may take some time for older people to rebuild their confidence, urging people to “keep supporting the older people in your lives”.
She said: “Our research found that earlier this year, immobility, deconditioning, loneliness, and an inability to grieve as normal, were leaving deep physical and emotional scars on a significant proportion of our older population.”
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In the name of “saving granny” we’ve petrified them and made their lives a misery. Despicable. And the pro lockdown lobby try and claim the moral high ground.
Come now! What’s a bit of mental anguish, physical pain and declining faculties when compared to undertaking that great task of saving “our” NHS?
It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone that inflicting all of this upon any section of the population (apart from politicians, modellers, snakeoil salesmen and medics who have abandoned any pretence at ethics), whatever their age, is hardly likely to enhance health and happiness. It really is quite vomit-inducing to hear now about ridiculous apps for healthy living, and to read about Whitty’s sudden interest in improving the health of coastal communities; what’s left of them.
With this bunch, there’s no difference between them and the malefactor who hurls a spitting, poisonous mamba snake in your face, which bites you. Smirking, he lets you enjoy the prospect of imminent mortality, before producing the anti-venom “to save you”.
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And what are you, Age UK, doing about it??? Saying “it may take some time for older people to rebuild their confidence” isn’t really helpful. Many probably haven’t got that time left! Are YOU going take this further? How are you going take this further? We’ll probably never know. THIS has has been an evil psychological attack, a deep programme of fear-based mind control, infiltrating every aspect of ours lives, designed to destroy and demoralise the whole population, and sadly its worked on far too many. My elderly parents, sceptical as they are, have physically deteriorated in the last year. Luckily we’ve all pulled together as a family to keep our heads above water, but others are not so lucky. This is ALL by design.
Mrs FP and yours truly will be 73 in November and December respectively and we will be dammed if we let the Covid zero zealots win!!!
Nor will Aged Annie, who’s lost half a stone and is fitter than she’s been in years.
Age UK did nothing whatsoever to defend old people against the horrid cruelty being visited on them. Nothing.
Them and every other charity and organisation supposedly dedicated to the interests of their special constituency – no pushback whatsoever, just offers of support and pleading for money, but never ever identifying the root cause of the problem.
So true – and yet another black mark against most of the ‘charity’ sector!
I had identified several groups (the Press, the Churches, numerous well-paid quangos) who were complicit in these crimes, but I had not thought about the charities. It does not seem as if there is ANY institution in this country that is free from blame. Not ONE institution emerges with any credit for this catastrophe; individual members of each institution, yes, but those leading each institution have a great deal of blood on their hands.
Where was Age UK when visits were prevented to care homes? Why did not their leaders DEMAND entry for relatives to visit loved ones?
‘When you spread out your hands I shall conceal my eyes from you and though your prayers are many there is no hearing of them; your hands are filled with blood.’
Isaiah 1:15, my translation.
That’s a nice translation.
Thank you.
“Not ONE institution emerges with any credit”
I fear that you are sadly right. Bluntly – 1930s Germany saw more opposition to totalitarianism than this.
Most established charities, incl Age UK, are now largely dependent on government funding, funding which comes with explicit conditions forbidding them to take a political stance on anything, ie they are not allowed to point fingers at anything which would make the government look bad.
https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/06/charities-to-be-banned-from-using-government-funding-to-lobby-on-behalf-of-beneficiaries/
Mr CGL fears he will never see his parents in the same room again. Both double-stabbed but won’t allow anyone into the house. They don’t want to give it to anyone!!!!! Considering they don’t go anywhere, how on earth has what is left of their brain worked out that they could possibly do that???
This loathsome government and their partners in crime have truly waged a terror campaign against it’s own people.
Where would we be without this site, Talk radio and other like-minded groups and individuals?
We still have a hell of a way to go but I think and I believe that we have made a start.
The current Symposium of the rational (see UK Column) does give hope.
The lack of logic for so many people’s behaviour is bewildering. I’m fairly sure my mother and stepfather would have been the same.
I assume you’ve tried to reason with them. No luck getting through at all?
I know, my in-laws started shielding before they actually had to, and have barely moved since. Both are double jabbed but are convinced that they themselves, and everyone else is infected! Last year MIL during one of the lockdowns, I forget which, shouted at a delivery person to “stand back as I don’t want to give you Covid!” even she’d been shielding for months, and not ill! They don’t really want to see us either. We’ve tried practically everything to try open their minds as to what’s going but they have determinedly shoved their heads deeper into the sand, and don’t want to know.
I wonder how much of the decline in health both physical and mental, is caused by The Vaccines. We’ll never know.
Of course, a healthy well population don’t need pharma products
… and doesn’t exist in that absolute sense. Don’t indulge in the alternative health fascism. I never found the choice between Stalin and Hitler a particularly inviting one.
The link between psychological and physical problems needs to be emphasized. They form a deadly feed-back syndrome.
I’ve certainly deteriorated physically over the past eighteen months – and it’s not just inherent illness and inevitable ageing.
… but at least I’ve escaped the psychological illness of believing in the fantasies spread by the government and SAGE.
I’ve been more sedentary although try to keep busy with whatever I can, and have put on a bit of weight just from lack of exercise.
MOH and I are losing motivation. What keeps me going and in a more positive mindset is a thirst for revenge, and a quietly seething anger.
‘losing motivation’
I think many of us will recognise that deadly aspect that has to be continually fought against. Although I have many interests, and anger and data-mining keeps me going, I haven’t (for instance) picked up my fiddle for quite a while – although – theoretically – this is a great time to put some polish on the technique. I know I’m not alone in this.
Basically you are suffering from some mental problems brought about not just by the news bombardment, but also amplified by participating in “resistance” forums such as this one. You’d think this is a coping mechanism, but it’s actually exacerbating your mental issues (“radicalizing” you in the process and making unable to objectively process new information).
You are in the unfortunate minority of people who are susceptible to this. The majority is largely unaffected, and so they have no understanding for the “nuts” of your kind. They are what you might call the “chilled out / don’t care / not a big deal” persuasion.
An actual therapy instead of isolating yourselves in an echo chamber with other nuts would be to just avoid exposure (to either side of the “debate”). But of course, it is difficult to break out because, as you’ve already noticed, fanning the flames has an addictive quality to it (that also applies to news headlines, which are intentionally designed to upset and provoke readers).
You propagandists are getting ever more transparent in your desperation.
I also expected this sort of reply. But anyhow, if you wish to test what I wrote, take a week break from the media (all media), and feel the difference.
I suggest you follow your own advice and leave this site for a while – you’ll feel so much more content, won’t you?
What a load of nonsense!
Try intermittent fasting – 16 hours between your dinner and breakfast (only water or herbal tea in those 16 hours) three times a week and then try and have 14 hours between dinner and breakfast for another 3 days, with one day off. You should lose weight and feel well.
After I changed my diet (low carb/paleo/keto/real food) I didn’t consciously fast, I just found I only needed to eat when I was hungry. Quite an astonishing difference from my high carb low fat days when I would need to carb up every few hours.
it’s largely ageing that is catching up with me now, plus of course the damage from decades of the wrong diet and clueless doctors.
I walked a lot and sat in the sun during the frst lockdown and on, but now I’m definitely less physically and mentally active. It’s actually premature ageing.
Yes, it’s not easy to maintain fitness. Luckily I bought a second-hand cross-trainer a few years ago, so I use that every other day after I get up (approximately 20 minutes on the lowest setting is enough for a good cardio-vascular workout). I’ve increased my Vit D intake (with Vit K) considerably (8,000 daily international units for the former), as well as Vit C and zinc supplements and combined with the intermittent fasting, I feel better than I have in 10 years.
Never mind, us oldies will all be dead that much sooner and the problem will have gone away. Government job done with the loss of only one slogan (re killing Granny).
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/07/deadly-shots-former-pfizer-employee-confirms-poison-in-covid-vaccine/#respond
Hey thanks for the down arrows, proving what ignoramuses you are! So you don’t like the information, well provide some of your own!
Don’t worry, Bella Donna. It is much harder to convince someone they have been fooled that to deceive them in the first place. I saw the same interview on Bitchute yesterday and was left thinking – If this is true, then Big Pharma should get their collars felt. How to test the provenance of it? The ex-Phizer lady did show, fleetingly, documents that support the accusation. These should be made public on a private server somewhere so that multiple copies can be retrieved and stored (much like the Climategate emails). If this cannot be done, then I guess we have to wait for an ‘accident’ to befall the informant to give it credence. What I found chilling was the assertion that one of the four lipids used in the (Phizer and Moderna) ‘vaccines’ – all made by Sinopeg, apparently, that well trusted Chinese firm – is capable of being ionized, which would give the Graphine Oxide a charge, which we are told makes it lethal. Presumably, the ionized lipid will be activated as required. Winter top-up boosters, anyone?
On the same website is an expose of the contracts that Big Pharma are using. Somewhat one-sided, if true.
“It is much harder to convince someone they have been fooled that to deceive them in the first place.” Yes, and this observation applies very much to yourself.
Off topic, but in my rabbling thoughts I realised I must be a member of the proletarian class (in the Roman sense, the lowest member of Roman society who only had working and proliferation use), As rules don’t apply to the “Elites” or Patricians but only to the Plebs, but rules don’t apply to me so I must be a prole.
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Howard Hughes and Michael Jackson thought that they would live forever and look what happened to them.
Let us “normals”/”sceptics” take our chances.
It is better to die fighting on your feet than live forever on your knees”.
My parents are very elderly (92 & 84) but until the start of last year were both remarkably active. My mother did folk dancing, my father was a keen member of U3A, they both went to something almost every weekday, plus church on Sunday.
Then all their activities and meetings were stopped.
Although they are still well in most ways, they both feel less strong, and my Father feels so “wobbly” now that he has bought a mobility scooter. They are not afraid of going out, and some activities have restarted, but things are not the same as before. Their church did restart, but they are forced to wear a mask, even now, have only just been allowed to sing again ( with mask in place), and are reprimanded if they linger after a service to talk to other people! For some people, seeing others at church may be the only human contact they have, but even this is being denied them.
My mother longs for her dancing to restart, but so far, it hasn’t. Despite her age, she used to lead many dances as she knew them, now she is worried she won’t be able to do that.
What has happened to ALL of us is despicable, but for the elderly, it has been very cruel. And according to the Telegraph today, it may be even worse than that, with allegations of a plan for the NHS to stop care for anyone over 70, in the case of a pandemic, and instead put them on an end of life “pathway” instead.
If people still think that the government and our sacred NHS still has any care for them, then they are stupid in the extreme.
What needs to be thrown back forcibly at people is that the NHS has not been put under abnormal pressure by a virus. Any pressure has been created by political decisions over the past 20 years, and blame has to be put where it belongs.
Yes this is what has happened to mine and friends elderly relatives. Everything they used to do was stopped and they were isolated from family and friends too. I have driven myself half mad trying to find ways to support my poor father who lives in a care home. And after 11 months of only seeing him through glass doors he was put on end of life care and his family were allowed to see him. But he didn’t die, he took drinks and food from us and got stronger. He is now at a new care home and we can now see him in person after doing a lateral flow test. Many people were not as ‘lucky’ as us as their relatives died in their care homes without ever being able to be comforted by their families.
My other elderly relatives as as described in the article, less mobile, more lonely and depressed. These people have had their lives shattered and it’s going to be hard for them to get back to what they had, if they can at all. Utterly unforgivable.
I have an elderly relative in a care home. She’s been to hospital a couple of times with urinary infections in the past year primarily caused by dehydration. Previously, her daughter & grandchildren visited daily & badgered her to drink. The staff too, encouraged drinking but with lockdown visits to her room stopped, too much hassle putting on PPE, she dehydrated & ended up in hospital. I know other people who describe the same. I remain convinced that dehydration killed as many elderly people as covid ever did put them into hospital where they became infected died of whatever but ended up as a covid statistic.
My mother was still walking at 94, albeit with puffs of her inhaler every so often. She wasn’t so good at being 95 though. only lasted a month after her birthday. She would NOT have done well with the lockdowns, who does? They claim to be “saving granny” but actually they are finishing her off.
About a year ago the Zoe app arranged a user survey of people’s fitness post lockdown 1. The results boiled down to, previously active people got more active &, on average lost 3kgs. Previously inactive people became even more sedentary & had put on 3kgs. That’s a delta of 2 or 3 BMI points, about 3 years of foreshortened life & £3bn of additional funding.
I haven’t seen any data if a repeat analysis but I can only think it’s got worse.
Just wondering what the situation is with gp’s? Have they been told by the gov’t not to see patients in person? If so, who exactly made this decision, when and when will we get back to normal. Very difficult to examine a patient over the phone. Remember docs look, listen, palpate. The basics of medicine. And one more thing, first, do no harm.
As Tony Benn stated years ago…a sick nation is easier to CONTROL than a healthy one…
I reckon a quarter may be a bit of an underestimate. I am just over 60 and yes my fitness is reduced, I may be able to improve.
The strange thing is that all of the measures were aimed at saving lives, and mostly lives of the over 80s – for that is the age group most affected by the virus.
Yet this age group has been absolutely stuffed by lockdown.
In March 2020 I had 4 living rellies over 80: two are now dead, not due to covid. One of these was significantly mobility-related, had a major stroke after months of limited activity – probably a factor in the stroke. The other death was Parkinson’s, a miserable one last August in a care home isolated from family. Of the two surviving over 80s one has spent time in NHS hospital due to lack of mobility – she used to walk a mile a day but in lockdowns that became just a few yards. The fourth has retained mobility to some extent but has clearly declined in lockdown.
If the point of lockdown was to prolong the active and happy lives of the elderly then it manifestly failed.
Including people in their sixties, many of whom are fit and active and probably still working, has skewed these figures. If they had surveyed only the over 80s they would find that they have been utterly destroyed. People who had active social lives, sang in choirs, went to church, were active in voluntary organisations and went swimming several times a week have had all those things taken away from them. Many were still driving before, but daren’t now. Minds that were kept alert by physical and mental activity have deteriorated to the point of needing care.
These are people who have paid into the NHS for decades; those in their 90s since the day it began. They believe in it because they remember it how it used to be. And they have been sacrificed to ‘save’ it.
It’s not even economic good sense because they will need more state help now than they did before.
Yea like %95 of people still wear face nappies load of bollocks.
Since being allowed in the pub, I have allocated and extra session to my drinking habits (including carbs from beer), and can’t be bothered shopping healthily.
When they allow this to be over, I will revert to a healthier lifestyle.