Aug 14, 2025
Are you eating well? Food and drink is a subject close to our hearts here at Home & Company! But we are very aware that getting older or living with long term health conditions and disabilities can make eating well and drinking enough really tricky. Cooking for...
Feb 19, 2024
Do you drink enough water? Most of us don’t, and as we get older we get worse. Figures from the Clinical Nutrition Journal show that around 25% of older adults are chronically dehydrated. Somehow when it’s cold and wintery outside the prompt to reach for a glass of...
Dec 20, 2022
Isn’t it lovely to be looking forward to a ‘normal’ Christmas after the uncertainty of the past few Covid Christmases. Of course, being normal does mean a return to some of the stresses and strains of the season, buying presents for friends and family, making travel...
Feb 16, 2022
We often hear on the news about Britain’s obesity crisis but many, particularly older, people are not eating enough. Research shows that 1 in 10 people aged over 65 are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Cooking for one can feel a real drag and isn’t...
Dec 10, 2021
On the whole we’ve been grateful to get back to some sort of normality over the latter part of the year haven’t we, although it is all feeling rather uncertain again and here we are hurtling towards Christmas once more! If you feel it would make all the difference to...
Oct 13, 2020
What a fabulous extended Summer we have had down here on the South Coast and of course it had to end at some point! On the bright side we at the Home & Company office are rather too happily diving straight into the comforts of autumnal food. Is there anything...
