29 Mar 2018
Britain’s two oldest men, Alf Smith and Bob Weighton, have celebrated turning 110-years-old today. Born on 29 March 1908, they've lived through two world wars, the moon landings and the birth of the NHS......
29 Mar 2018
Dragon’s Den Star Levi Roots has revealed that playing reggae tunes at a cafe for people with dementia was one of his 'hardest gigs'. The charismatic entrepreneur and Reggae Reggae sauce inventor chatted.....
28 Mar 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May took time out from dealing with Russia, Brexit talks and international terrorism to chat with home care workers at the unveiling of Right at Home’s 50th domiciliary care business......
28 Mar 2018
Wildlife TV presenter Chris Packham knows only too well the moments of anxiety that a day out somewhere new can bring to someone with an "invisible" disability like autism. Diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome,.....
28 Mar 2018
Fed up of being 'hamstrung by budget cuts', Samuel Holmes turned his back on social work and now runs his own home care business. By running a company that specialises in supporting older people, he now feels more able to provide.....
26 Mar 2018
Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage, is to speak at The Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo, along with other high-profile care leaders such as CQC’s Andrea Sutcliffe and Care England’s Martin Green. The.....
23 Mar 2018
For the first time, a new drug has been shown to slow the progression of disability in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SPMS), a severe form of the condition, which gets steadily worse over time. Up.....
22 Mar 2018
Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston is the latest television star urging the nation to #ShareTheOrange to encourage people to think differently about dementia. The American screenwriter is calling on people.....
21 Mar 2018
The Government has been ordered to cough up between £570m and £830m to cover overdue disability benefits payments, which were mistakenly underpaid when previous benefits schemes were changed over to the Employment and Support Allowance.....
20 Mar 2018
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched his blueprint for reforming the social care system, promising the much anticipated Green Paper in the summer will “kick start the vital debate” into social care funding. Speaking.....
20 Mar 2018
A 62-year-old woman with early-onset dementia is on a mission to challenge people’s perception of the condition by running the London Marathon in April 2018. Sue Strachan, who is known by friends and family.....
19 Mar 2018
When a stroke robbed Zena Ware of the use of the left side of her body, she became isolated and lonely and found it increasingly difficult to cook for herself. But last April, when 23-year-old student Amelia.....
16 Mar 2018
Home care workers in Manchester are to receive a £1 an hour pay boost from 1 April to ensure they get ‘a proper living wage’. Domiciliary care workers will see their pay increase from £7.50 - the National.....
15 Mar 2018
Scientists have found more than 90 per cent of bottled water tested in a recent study was contaminated with microplastics, prompting the World Health Organisation (WHO) to review the risk to human health of drinking water with plastic.....
14 Mar 2018
A Care Quality Commission rating can make or break a care home, so it is vital care homes feel they are able to protect their reputations and can challenge inspection report findings if there is justification. It.....
14 Mar 2018
Tributes are being paid to internationally celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking who died at his home at the age of 76, but doctors initially gave him only three years to live when he was 21. Diagnosed with.....
13 Mar 2018
Philip Hammond was bouncy as he delivered his Spring Statement, describing himself as ‘positively Tigger-like’ while announcing the economy had grown every year since 2010, however his speech gave no joy to the care sector. With.....
12 Mar 2018
A deaf and blind climber has challenged himself to trek night and day along the Ridgeway – a national trail in the south of England - as part of a 52 mile journey to raise money for a disability charity. Forty-four-old.....
09 Mar 2018
Emergency funds are being raided as local authorities struggle to meet a rise in demand for social care and ease the pain of a 49 per cent fall in funding from the Government since 2010. The major drop in.....
09 Mar 2018
A home care provider in Kent has been praised by the care watchdog for treating people and their relatives with “kindness, dignity and respect”. Home Instead Senior Care - Bromley, Chislehurst & Orpington.....
08 Mar 2018
The care sector needs to let older people with dementia live as ‘full human beings’, according to Scottish Care’s chief executive who has condemned ‘negative and unhelpful attitudes’ about the elderly's sexual needs. ‘Human.....
07 Mar 2018
A son has praised Sainsbury’s on Twitter for supporting his mum to stay on at work, "going above and beyond to make sure she's happy and feeling valued". With tweets that have gone viral, Doron Salomon, thanked.....
05 Mar 2018
Marathon runner, Ron Hill, who last year was forced to end his 52-year running streak of at least a mile a day after suffering chest pains, has revealed he has dementia. Ron, who won the marathon gold medals.....
02 Mar 2018
A fundraising page has been set up in memory of a 'popular' care worker who was found dead in the snow on her way to work. Elaine McNeill, aged 42, fell ill en route to her work for , which.....
01 Mar 2018
When arctic weather nicknamed the ‘Beast from the East’ arrived in Cornwall, the owners of 4x4s answered a home care firm’s Facebook appeal to take care staff to the elderly. Live Life Care supports older.....
01 Mar 2018
Home care workers have paid tribute to a 99-year-old who brought ‘happiness, laughter and joy’. Joyce Holman, who died just after Christmas, “genuinely cared about her carers as much as we cared about her,”.....
01 Mar 2018
Thousands of people with mental health problems are being sent to residential rehabilitation services 'out of area', leaving them isolated and less likely to recover, a care watchdog has warned. A report.....