Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these 2 factors alone contributing around 17%…
Read more...Successive governments have failed to focus on the issues raised by an ageing society. Raising the State Pension Age, which governments of all hues have…
Read more...Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has pledged his full support to campaigners fighting proposals that could see a care home in his constituency close its…
Read more...The residential and nursing care sector has voiced alarm at Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget today, warning that the financial package offers insufficient support to…
Read more...Homecare across the UK is now funded at levels that make legal compliance difficult, high -quality care undeliverable, and workforce sustainability unachievable, according to The Homecare…
Read more...A Cumbrian care home provider has taken a bold step into the future by becoming employee-owned. HomeTrust Care Limited, which operates three care homes across…
Read more...Carers UK marked a significant milestone in its 60th anniversary year with the final event in its national Mary Webster Lecture series, a powerful celebration…
Read more...A new survey of councils in England reveals that just two per cent believe the £842 million-a-year Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) will be sufficient…
Read more...Vulnerable people lacking the mental capacity to make decisions about their care are expected to benefit from major changes to safeguarding and protections, following a…
Read more...Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney announced that the Scottish Government will directly sponsor visas for overseas care workers in a bold move to counter Westminster’s…
Read more...Care home operators and social care providers marched through Liverpool city centre on 29 September, calling on government to address what they describe as a…
Read more...A social care champion says Reform UK’s “potentially catastrophic” plan to threaten legal immigrants with deportation would put vulnerable people at risk in Wales. Mario…
Read more...A new short film, based on University of Birmingham research, is sharing the voices of, and crisis facing, parent carers in the UK. More than…
Read more...NHS Confederation mental health director Rebecca Gray has expressed concern over the disparity in detention rates of mental patients, based on ethnicity, in the recent…
Read more...England’s social care system is at breaking point, with rising demand, shrinking supply, and growing reliance on unpaid carers, according to a new paper for…
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