More than one million families have been forced to sell their home in just five years to meet the cost of paying for residential care, new figures have revealed.
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Tuesday 3 September 2013
Elderly care crisis claims a million family homes
Why Seamus Heaney's last words weren't the last laugh
It was a brilliant stroke of Seamus Heaney to leave last words that could only be taken as a serious poetic insight, says Christopher Howse
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Use 'Kitemarks' to rate hospital care for elderly, demand doctors
Hospitals should compete to earn "Kitemarks" to demonstrate that they can safely care for the elderly, leading doctors have said.
'Gold standard' needed for hospital care
A new quality mark should be introduced to help hospitals provide the best quality of care for older patients, experts have said. A report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) claims that...
Helpers being ought to help elderly shopping club members shop
VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help older people to carry out their shopping as part of a Come Dine With Us shopping club.
Over-70s to receive shingles jabs
A new immunisation programme will see people in their 70s offered the shingles vaccine on the NHS. {DynamicContent:Social Media Buttons} The campaign, overseen by Public Health England, will...
Loneliness of dementia revealed
Communities need to look after people with dementia because too often they feel trapped and cut off from everyday local life, a charity says.
Dementia: hundreds of thousands who rarely go outside
Almost 300,000 people who suffer dementia only venture outside once a week at the most and tens of thousands have given up doing so altogether, a study has found.
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Use 'Kitemarks' to rate hospital care for elderly, demand doctors
Hospitals should compete to earn "Kitemarks" to demonstrate that they can safely care for the elderly, leading doctors have said.
Older people should be supported to carry on living at home
Even if care providers up their own game, the health and social care sector is underprepared to help people remain independent The UK care sector, buckling under the weight of our rapidly ageing population, is driving many older people into residential care before it is absolutely necessary. This is a great tragedy, with a shocking economic cost matched only in scale by its personal devastation ...
Kitemarks to ensure wards are safe for the elderly: Hospitals to be assessed to ensure they give older people good ...
Senior doctors are drawing up a new system which will see wards judged on their treatment of older patients. It follows concern that the elderly are neglected by staff.
'Gold standard' for elderly care
Hospitals must strive to achieve a "gold standard" of care for vulnerable elderly patients so the Mid Staffordshire scandal is never repeated, leading doctors have said.
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