Search results for ‘elderly care’
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Elderly care: are there lessons UK can learn from Netherlands?
The number of people in the UK aged over 85 who’ll need round the clock care is set to double by 2035, according to a major new study.
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Inheritance tax rises to pay for elderly care
Thousands more people are likely to be hit with inheritance tax to pay for an extension in state support for elderly care, under new plans by the coalition.
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Elderly care standards: three health trusts break law
As inspectors raise serious concerns about care for the elderly in some NHS hospitals, one woman tells Channel 4 News that the care her 96-year-old mother received was “abominable”.
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Elderly people with complex health needs being denied free care
Thousands of families across the country are waiting to find out if there will be a judicial review into the way healthcare for their loved ones is funded, under a system many describe as broken.
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Sending elderly people to care homes without Covid tests breached human rights, says Amnesty
The decision to send thousands of untested patients back into care homes across England at the start of lockdown was a violation of human rights, according to Amnesty International.
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Elderly home care ‘disgraceful’
Older people are suffering “disgraceful” home care including missed medication and confinement to soiled beds, according to an undercover investigation by Which?
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Elderly left ‘lonely, isolated and at risk’ by care services
Social care experts have written to the government urging it to overhaul England’s “failing” social care system, which they say is leaving 800,000 elderly people “lonely, isolated and at risk”.
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Elderly people’s human rights ‘overlooked’ by care system
The basic human rights of older people being given care at home are being overlooked, with some left in bed for 17 hours between visits, according to early findings in a new inquiry.
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LGBTQ+ abuse in care homes revealed
One of the joys of growing old is being able to unashamedly be yourself – but sadly that isn’t proving to be the case for many older LGBTQ+ people living in care.
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‘We have had to sell her house’: Inside England’s care home funding crisis
There’s a crisis of funding in England’s elderly care homes.
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People ‘will die’ due to care home staff shortages, warns care provider
Care providers have told Channel 4 News that elderly and vulnerable people “will die” due to an unprecedented shortage of staff.
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Bulk of money from new levy will not be spent on social care in early years
Less than £5.5 billion of the £12 billion raised will actually go towards social care in the first three years.
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FactCheck: government doesn’t know how many staff at hundreds of care providers are vaccinated
Some 668 providers are missing from the data.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims about care home lists don’t add up
The Health Secretary said the government didn’t have a list of all the elderly care homes in England.
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Vaccine offered to every older resident at eligible care homes in England
But concerns remain over how many staff in England still need to be vaccinated.