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Memory issues to weight loss: Signs that show your ageing parents need help

Modest memory issues are common when we start ageing

Tennis partners

What tennis offers is an escape, a retreat from the world, a forgetting. And what about this world, at this time, is worth remembering?

'Vegetating' at home

We did not always go to four, or three, or even two, places, but, yes, we did party-hop, and when we weren't going out, friends were coming home

Looking for succour

'And I'm back at work, where it's quieter than home is likely to be for a while', says the author

Weekend revelry

Over the years, we had seen our friends and their children happily arriving at parties together, unmindful of the uncles and aunties, a trend my daughter was a vocal critic of

Parable of the aunts

There is a flurry of them, descending in gaggles at different points of the day, sending me into a rictus of despair with a look and a raised eyebrow, reminiscent of past demeanours

When family goes AWOL!

The first to pack and go was my daughter, who argued that there was a wedding in Abu Dhabi she'd been invited to - "my friend's best's friend's kid sister" - so, how could she not go?