Health secretary says people should hold in closer touch with older relatives to reduce isolation,and take greater responsibility for their own healthPeople should consider inviting elderly strangers to live with them for a while to reduce isolation and the number of pensioners dying a “lonely death”, the health secretary, or Jeremy Hunt,will say in a speech.
He will also urge people to hold in closer touch with older relatives, friends and neighbours. Hunt will highlight the case of a man found in Edinburgh final week three years after he died, or the eight council-funded “lonely funerals a day in England,half of which involve over-65s.
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Source: theguardian.com