Pensioners struggling without help from family, neighbours or state. Further cuts to care budgets will hit ageing population. Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent regarding the country’s leading charity representing older people stating there is...
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” ...
People with terminal diseases should be offered more free social care and a greater say in the type of support they receive at the end of their life, MPs said last night. While most people...
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...
Fiona MacRae for the Daily Mail writes how suffering from bereavement, many older people seek help from a GP to cope with the crushing feeling of loneliness. But they are often misdiagnosed with depression –...
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...
Care of the elderly is in a state of “calamitous, quite rapid decline”, a leading charity boss has warned, with hundreds of thousands fewer people receiving care than five years ago. More than £1bn has...
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