Age UK’s advice to pensioners | How to protect yourself during winter
Have a flu vaccination every year – the new vaccine introduced this year for people 65+ has an agent which helps boost the immune system and helps fight illnesses.
There is also a pneumonia vaccine – find out if you’re eligible when you have your flu jab.
Keep your hands clean – good hand hygiene helps stop infections spreading.
Keep simple cold and sore throat remedies in your medicine cabinet to treat minor illnesses when they strike. Your local pharmacist can give advice on treatments.
Wrap up when you go outside in the cold – use multiple layers and keep hands, feet and face warm and covered with scarves, gloves and thick socks.
Eat well – make sure you eat at least one hot meal every day, hot drinks throughout the day to keep up energy levels.
Keep warm to stay well – your living room temperature to 21 degrees and your bedroom temperature to 18 degrees and take particular care if you are going from a warm environment into the cold.
Keep moving – try not to sit still for more than one hour at a time even if you just move your arms and legs. If you can stay active, not only will it keep you fit and healthy, it will also generate heat to keep you warmer.
6 thoughts on “How to protect yourself during winter”
I’m so glad you’re getting out more regularly. I have reclusive tendencies too and my wife is constantly encouraging me to get out–teach a course, see friends, etc. but I prefer staying home and writing/ reading as i have dome all these years.
Some of the people were quite wild looking!! I think it can be awaste of time if the people are boring.When writing goes well we don’t want to stop.But another point of view can be good
I noticed too that people are not dressing as warmly for the winter as they used to. We live very c lose to a high school and my wife and i notice often that the kids wear light jackets in winter.
I think that’s cool the way your sister got the training slot.
She really enjoyed her year in Oxford .Shen slept on thje floor of my room.. it was fun I guess
Thank you Katherine. I live in the Chicago area where as you might know it is one of the coldest and snowiest places in the U.S,, so i grew up taking winter measures. I thank you for reminding me. As as happened to me before–and others, I hear–I had a flu shot and still promptly got the flu. But I dress in layers, etc. and my wife–a great ear muff wearer–bought me ear muffs too. Long underwear is needed here when the brrrr weather comes, and thick clothes, and a great pair of gloves, When the temperature hits wind chills of 50 or 80 below zero as it does here I wear a face mask and ski gloves too.
I hope you are well and are hard at work at your craft
Best wishes, David.
Gosh,David.That is very cold.A shame to get flu when you had the jab.I notice people here often have no proper winter coats anymore.Perhaps as they drivr a lot but when we had a storm and cars were stuck, some folk just had shirts and not even a jacket.We used to have woollen vests when I was a child but it’s regarded as silly now.I found some of my husband’s so I might wear those.Hats and/ or ear muffs are essentialOnde day I
wore 2 skirts a wool one and a cord one.I felt so warm it was delightful.I don’t think I have ever experienced such cold as you get.In Oxford in Jan 68 there was thick snow and Port Meadow was frozen solid.My sister had an interview for postgraduate teacher training.She was the only person who got there so they gaver her a place!We were used to cold coming from the Western Pennines.In those days I wore a horrible grey man’s duffel coat far too large but it was warm.My bedsitter had a xoin in the slot electric fire.I am glad I hace better clothes noq.Yes,I am working well.I went to the local town’s poetry grouo meeting 10 days ago.I’ll have to sens an email to describe it!! I l also went ton a poetry and music event in a mediaeval church.I’ve been out very little since my loss and I now feel I’ll be going regulartly to the group.Lrt’d hopr your winter is not too bad.I suppose it’s the wind and rhe lakes.I believe there are singing sands,All the bestKatherines
Age UK’s advice to pensioners | How to protect yourself during winter
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I’m so glad you’re getting out more regularly. I have reclusive tendencies too and my wife is constantly encouraging me to get out–teach a course, see friends, etc. but I prefer staying home and writing/ reading as i have dome all these years.
Some of the people were quite wild looking!! I think it can be awaste of time if the people are boring.When writing goes well we don’t want to stop.But another point of view can be good
I noticed too that people are not dressing as warmly for the winter as they used to. We live very c lose to a high school and my wife and i notice often that the kids wear light jackets in winter.
I think that’s cool the way your sister got the training slot.
She really enjoyed her year in Oxford .Shen slept on thje floor of my room.. it was fun I guess
Thank you Katherine. I live in the Chicago area where as you might know it is one of the coldest and snowiest places in the U.S,, so i grew up taking winter measures. I thank you for reminding me. As as happened to me before–and others, I hear–I had a flu shot and still promptly got the flu. But I dress in layers, etc. and my wife–a great ear muff wearer–bought me ear muffs too. Long underwear is needed here when the brrrr weather comes, and thick clothes, and a great pair of gloves, When the temperature hits wind chills of 50 or 80 below zero as it does here I wear a face mask and ski gloves too.
I hope you are well and are hard at work at your craft
Best wishes, David.
Gosh,David.That is very cold.A shame to get flu when you had the jab.I notice people here often have no proper winter coats anymore.Perhaps as they drivr a lot but when we had a storm and cars were stuck, some folk just had shirts and not even a jacket.We used to have woollen vests when I was a child but it’s regarded as silly now.I found some of my husband’s so I might wear those.Hats and/ or ear muffs are essentialOnde day I
wore 2 skirts a wool one and a cord one.I felt so warm it was delightful.I don’t think I have ever experienced such cold as you get.In Oxford in Jan 68 there was thick snow and Port Meadow was frozen solid.My sister had an interview for postgraduate teacher training.She was the only person who got there so they gaver her a place!We were used to cold coming from the Western Pennines.In those days I wore a horrible grey man’s duffel coat far too large but it was warm.My bedsitter had a xoin in the slot electric fire.I am glad I hace better clothes noq.Yes,I am working well.I went to the local town’s poetry grouo meeting 10 days ago.I’ll have to sens an email to describe it!! I l also went ton a poetry and music event in a mediaeval church.I’ve been out very little since my loss and I now feel I’ll be going regulartly to the group.Lrt’d hopr your winter is not too bad.I suppose it’s the wind and rhe lakes.I believe there are singing sands,All the bestKatherines