Hospitals are not doing enough to tackle elderly malnutrition and hunger, according to a charity. Age Concern said many hospitals of “still not doing enough to stop older people from going hungry on hospital wards”.

A journalist who petitioned Downing Street calling for better awareness of bone marrow donation has died after a battle with leukaemia.

WILTSHIRE County Council has won £1.4m to build extra care housing aimed at helping the elderly and those with long-term conditions.

Prison bosses in England and Wales have failed to respond to a call to introduce special policies for elderly inmates, the prisons inspector says.

No action will be taken by police after an initial investigation into conditions at a Northamptonshire care home concludes.

CARE home workers are celebrating today after successfully claiming they were forced from their jobs. The 14 staff had all worked at The Dales Rest Home in West Kirby until a few days after it was sold to a new owner.

Dangerously overweight children will be taken into care if the obesity epidemic continues, council chiefs warned yesterday.

The “postcode lottery” that means cancer patients miss out on new drugs is the fault of local health trusts, the head of Nice, the NHS drug watchdog, has said.

When Helen Pacha was just 13, she lost her eyesight in a freak fairground accident and ever since has relied on the kindness of strangers to get about.

A “DEPRESSED” carer who ripped off £400 from a 94-year-old woman in a Bristol residential home has been handed a suspended jail term.