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Congratulations to service provider Care UK for posting a £1.6m rise in profits to £21m on revenues up from £316m to £410. They must be doing something right. Read More...
It is a poor indictment on the quality of care when a
patient leaves hospital in worse shape than when they went in. Read More...
Earlier this week I wrote about a care home campaigner who is facing a conduct hearing , where it has been alleged that she breached client confidentiality. Read More...
There is an interesting conduct tribunal under way involving
a solicitor who campaigns against the closure of residential care homes. Read More...
Panorama last night looked at the move towards ending warden
assistance in sheltered housing - and the longer I watched the programme the
greater the impression I formed that councils and organisations were exploiting
the unwillingness or inability of...
So what is
"inefficient" use of money? Is it: a) subsidising over-60s to so that they can
travel free on buses; or b) widening the M25 at a cost of more than £ 5bn so
that traffic can queue in four lanes instead of three? Read More...
The appalling statistics about pensioner poverty and the
number of children living in overcrowded housing were timely. Read More...
It would have made a formidable double act: Dame Joan
Bakewell and Sir Michael Parkinson marching on Downing Street to protest about cuts in the number of sheltered housing wardens . Read More...
There has long been a feeling that care homes - a view not necessarily shared by the providers themselves - should welcome
pets owned by residents. Read More...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published its submission
to MPs now looking into the skills needs of social care staff who support people
with dementia . Read More...
Dementia is something most of us will experience in some way as the UK population ages. So listen up! Read More...
The Budget could have been worse. It could have been
delivered by George Osborne. Read More...
It was left to BBC Radio 4's Any Questions at the weekend
to maintain the momentum on the question of whistleblowing. Read More...
As Budget day nears, politicians and groups such as Age
Concern and Help the Aged are pressing chancellor Alistair Darling to address
the issues that they hold dear. Read More...
It has all the hallmarks of the Thalidomide scandal of the
1960s and 1970s. The morning sickness drug given to pregnant women caused them
to give birth to babies without arms and legs. Read More...
The Department of Health's Dignity in Care campaign was
delivered a jolt this week as pensioners joined Age Concern, MP Paul
Burstow and actress Sylvia Sims in a protest about the paltry sums on which
care home residents survive. Read More...
An interesting result has emerged from Age Concern 's Big Q on care. It seems that people do not expect an automatic entitlement to free care in
old age. Read More...
Fed up with the cold yet? Don't worry, it will become milder
next week - and may coincide with a bill dropping through your letterbox as a reminder of all the extra heating you have used recently. Read More...
Yesterday, one of the few boroughs in England that provided
free home care for elderly residents and disabled people started charging them. Read More...
Care home residents have been celebrating the new year with
the prospect of a full 75p rise in their personal allowance. Read More...
Care home provider Southern Cross Healthcare is making
negative headlines again. Read More...
That's the trouble with the older people of today. They just
have no respeck. They sit idly around all day on park benches, swigging
Lucozade, talking about the war - loudly I might say - and waving their sticks
and pipes to emphasise some point they...
Age Concern's bold attempt to end compulsory retirement at
65 for the UK workforce was always going to be fought from the back foot. Read More...
He avoided urging the faithful to go back to their
constituencies and prepare for government, as David Steel once did, but Lib
Dems leader Nick Clegg did tell the party conference yesterday: "I can tell you
where we're headed - government."...
Why are the UK authorities giving former Gurkhas such a hard
time? Read More...
Stand on your own two feet is a phrase that bears the
hallmark of Margaret Thatcher. But David Blunkett bought into the idea in a
speech to the Counsel and Care charity in London. Read More...
On turning 50, I became in the failing eyes of policymakers an "older person" . Read More...
The dangers of exposing social care to the whim of market forces were underlined when the High Court ordered a Southern Cross Healthcare subsidiary to relinquish control of a care home in Northamptonshire. Read More...
Another wretched story about getting older has emerged with the news that the NHS is denying up to two million over-65s treatment for
depression . Read More...
The three-year gap allowed between inspections of care homes
rated as "good" by the Commission for Social Care Inspection is generous
indeed. It is also risky. Read More...
When scientists calculate as early as July that the
following winter is likely to be colder than the ones we have been used to ,
news of soaring gas and electricity costs merely heightens the sense of
foreboding. Read More...
By Mike McNabb Radio 4's Today programme has been examining care for the
elderly and this week carried a worrying report about the lot of a care
assistant. Read More...