Assisted suicide: a right to choose?
The girl was 17 and she stood over her mother’s bed looking down into the rumpled bedclothes. The bloodied tissues were there again and her mum was curled up into a foetal position. It was obvious that...
View ArticleGrey matters
www.everymonday.ie Writing today’s column hurts. I don’t want to admit what’s happened to me. It seems so silly because this occurs to most of us eventually. Ok, here it is (deep breath): I found my...
View ArticleCommunity life the fairest deal for older people
(Originally appeared in Getting Notions column, www.everymonday.ie October, 2009) The “Fair Deal” for nursing homes is a welcome development but, asks Margaret E. Ward, is removing people from their...
View ArticleShadow of a doubt
Columnist Margaret E Ward discusses when she first realised her father was not well, his dementia and finding ways to cope Have your holidays left you wondering if all is as it seems? The season is a...
View ArticleBee in your bonnet?
Is there something wrong with the world you live in? Maybe it’s the way older people are treated. Perhaps it’s the shameful extent of child poverty. It could be the slow pace of progress on the...
View ArticleA fair chance for older workers?
As our workforce ages, Margaret E. Ward believes that companies need to start redressing the balance and stop discriminating against older workers Working it out It’s time for employers to wake up and...
View ArticleCarers: a curtailed and lonely life
One of the loneliest jobs a person can do is not working on an oil rig or spending months at an Antarctic research station; it’s being a carer. Margaret E Ward looks at the emotional and physical toll...
View ArticleTraliblaze Talk: Stories from My Grandmother
This story was originally published in The Irish Times on October 29, 1996. My Grandmother died the next day soon after it had been read to her. STORIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER By MARGARET E. WARD (note:...
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