Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlight the challenges carers face and recognise the contribution they make to families and communities throughout the UK. This year we’re focusing on building...
A war hero and his wife have been ordered to pay a weekly fee for the emergency cord at their sheltered accommodation because of council budget cuts. Roger Turner, 93, and Barbara 90, are terrified...
Major reforms to England’s social care services, introduced today, are “built on sand”, a coalition of leading charities has warned. The Care and Support Alliance (CSA) said that despite “bold” changes brought in by the...
More men than women in the “sandwich generation” provide day-to-day help for ageing parents, while supporting their own children, a study indicates. Nearly three quarters of fathers said that they helped to “maintain the wellbeing” ...
Emily Dugan writing in The Independent – Older people have been hit with a “double whammy” of cuts to social care and a huge drop in the number of community nurses to help them at...
Articles in several of the press today saying that a health watchdog is asking for plumbers and boiler engineers to report cold homes to the council to slash winter deaths. Around 25,000 extra brits –...
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable patients are being illegally restrained by staff in hospitals and care homes, according to the care watchdog. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) warns that carers and nursing staff are ignoring...
Britain faces a “Major Public Health Challenge” caused by the impact of long-term loneliness on elderly people, two charities have warned. Linked to dementia, depression and high blood pressure, chronic loneliness threatens the health of...
A mother and daughter face jail after being found guilty of defrauding a 92 year-old widow out of £500,000 in a bogus care scam during which they used her drive as a pitch for their...
Essex County Council should be thoroughly ashamed after keeping a 91 year-old man in a LOCKED dementia unit against his wishes for 17 months. This was despite his repeated insistence that he wanted to go...
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