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    Advice, elderly parent ill overseas

    Bearing in mind we have members with wide life experiences. I've had a call from my Mum's friend this afternoon, they are on holiday in Tenerife and Mum is in intensive care having blood transfusions. She was breathless and they called a doctor who admitted her to hospital, her haemoglobin...
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    Elderly newbie

    Hello all. I've recently acquired a,beautiful '89 SL420SL -my return to the marque after years of intervening BMW's and the like. Coincidentally the price I paid was pretty much the same as the '86 SL300 I bought in 1989. So far the only problem is resisting the urge to pile the miles on...
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    Elderly parents conundrum

    A little advice required please fellow forum members: My parents [aged 83 and 78] have just moved back to the UK having spent the last 12 years in Ireland. I've found them somewhere to live and now a small runaround so they can get themselves around, but here is the rub - although they have...
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    Petition - Compulsory retesting of elderly drivers.

    It has been discussed on this forum quite extensively recently and now there is a petition calling for it...
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    Another 'elderly driver' incident

    Picking my son up from primary school yesterday we saw a small hatchback wrapped round a tree. Ambulance plus two fire engines, lots of activity. The bizarre thing was that it was in a tiny car park ... couldn't figure out how it possibly got up enough speed to do such damage. Anyway ...
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    Ins advice for elderly visiting relatives please...

    Relatives of mine are arriving in Scotland tomorrow for what would be their usual twice annual driving holiday visit. Except they are having problems getting insurance. The problem seems to be that they hold international licences rather than UK ones. That, and their ages - 79 and 88. Can...
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    Elderly person pulled out early on me!

    Commuting home from work the other evening litrally 100 metre out of my works gates, in mid flow of traffic an elderly driver pulls out of a junction & manages to pick me out denting my OSF wing smashing my indicator & scuffing my bumper. I've never had a collision before & wasn't to sure on...
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