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High blood pressure (hypertension) is a serious health condition that can affect anyone.  Every time your heart beats, it pumps blood to the rest of your body through arteries.  Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries. Risk factors Some people have a greater chance of having high blood pressure due to: Age – The chance of having high blood pressure increases as you get older. Gender – Before age 55, men have a greater chance of having high blood pressure. Women are more likely to have high blood pressure after menopause. Family history – Read More

As we continue to experience an increase in Dementia in our society, it is ever more pertinent and important to continue sustaining community spirit, to halt the demise and melting away of the ‘village’. We need to focus on building Dementia friendly communities based on the foundations and positive characteristics of villages. Below is a blog by May Mak, a former volunteer with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) whose mission is to ‘bring people together to fight poverty’. May transfers her experiences in Rwanda during her VSO years to reflect on her ‘village’ at home in the UK. May is Read More