Widowers’ culinary skills flourish after their bereavement, study suggests

Widowers are far from useless in the kitchen – in fact, their culinary skills flourish after losing their loved one, a new study suggests.  Despite the stereotype of the elderly man being rubbish in the kitchen, male seniors do cook and blossom in the kitchen once alone, Danish researchers found.  Meanwhile, widows – women who had … Read more

A lung physio is the secret weapon in this 65-year-old widower’s coronavirus recovery

When Charlie Coulton regained consciousness after 42 days in intensive care fighting Covid-19 — half of that time on a ventilator — he wondered if he had woken up in a science fiction film. Surrounded by nurses and doctors wearing full protective suits, masks and gloves, and drowsy from sedatives and painkillers, the 65-year-old widower … Read more