Tagged: local authorities

Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

11th March 2015

New NHS Reforms – Healthcare Changes for 5 Million People

NHS REFORMS are considered necessary both for modernisation and to cut costs. NHS England hopes to save £22bn by 2020. Five million people in England will have their local NHS services transformed in the first...

Age Issues / Care Services / Focus on Disability / Social Care

26th January 2015

Loneliness of Our Elderly – Major Public Health Challenge

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...