14/05/2020 - 10:15
It seems, depending how one feels, it’s not always a good time to be of a certain age, the coronavirus pandemic may have confirmed those thoughts.
Not only is Covid-19 potentially more dangerous for those who are older (as well as for those with weak immune systems and those with other underlying health conditions), but it seems, all you hear every day in the news, press briefings and on social media is the dreaded term ‘vulnerable’. Read more
14/05/2020 - 10:13
The founding of the Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Group began in 2008 by a “a group of people who were experiencing in their day to day lives extreme difficulties whilst caring for family members living with dementia”. Later in 2014, they changed its name to GADs, the Gibraltar Alzheimer’s and Dementia Society. The society is “here to assist and support people living with dementia their families and carers and to help and progress in their care and treatment. We are committed to ensuring that people in Gibraltar living with dementia and their families receive the appropriate care and support, at the right time, at the right place and that they are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve”. GADs is here to make dementia a “PRIORITY; to transform dementia services with the aim of achieving early diagnosis and high quality care and support at whatever stages of the disease; for greater openness, knowledge and understanding about dementia”. Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:22
The Gibraltar Government’s ‘do more for less’ policy intended to soften an impending global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic has received backlash from the public sector. Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:21
In order to try to ensure that the public in Gibraltar has a good way of understanding how we are working to end confinement and loosen the lockdown regulations, the Government has prepared a visual to reflect the terms of this paper. Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:19
There is no doubt that Covid-19 has impacted each-and-every one of us!
The pressure to start relaxing the Covid-19-imposed measures has been mounting, it turned up a notch over the last week. It was clear ‘the natives were getting restless’ as the saying goes. Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:18
No sanitizers on site
According to a reliable source, at Eroski`s supermarket at the airport on Thursday of last week, as they entered the store from the exit side which was the only entrance open, there was no sanitizer on site for one’s hands, nor was there anyone sanitizing the bars of the shopping trolleys as they were carried in. Not very reassuring! Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:16
Letters being received by Gibraltar students from the Education Dept set unreasonable deadlines for reply when students are focussing on exams, says the GSD. Read more
13/05/2020 - 10:14
It was VE Day, and in conjunction with the daily tribute and salute to our front guards (our essential and emergency services) during this pandemic, a drummer and two buglers of the Gibraltar Band and Drums Association performed a salute ceremony at the Cross of Sacrifice. Read more
.jpg "IN PERSPECTIVE - Over 500 people diagnosed with dementia in Gibraltar")
.jpg "Driving dignitaries in wartime Gibraltar and beyond - including Montgomery and his double!")
