Inquiry As Elderly Abused In Care Home
An urgent investigation has been launched after The Northern Echo obtained evidence showing abuse of elderly people in a North-East care home.
Read MoreAn urgent investigation has been launched after The Northern Echo obtained evidence showing abuse of elderly people in a North-East care home.
Read MoreThe government has been charged with neglecting elderly people who suffer from mental health issues, in a new report.
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Read MoreBritain’s elderly are in the grip of a mental health crisis with more than 3.5 million older people suffering depression or dementia, according to a report.
{mosimage}The startling figures show the scale of mental health problems in the over-65s is far greater than previously thought.
Suicide rates among those over 75 have risen alarmingly, especially among women.
Experts warn unless prompt Government action is taken the number of those suffering mental health problems will rise by a third in the next 15 years.
The disturbing analysis is released today by the UK Inquiry into Mental Health and Well-Being in Later Life, involving experts from the London School of Economics, the Royal College of Nursing and the charity Age Concern.
According to the study, up to 2.6 million older people – one in four of those over 65 and two in five of those over 85 – are suffering from depression or serious symptoms of depression. Meanwhile, one in five people over 80 suffers from dementia.
Read MoreThe mother of a 17-month-old boy and her boyfriend have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the child died from horrific injuries.
Read MoreWriting to Minister Kevin Brennan, John Hemming MP, chairman of Justice for Families, has called for the responsiblity for investigating allegations of Child Abuse to be removed from Childrens Social Services.
Read MoreThe RNIB has accused the government body charged with deciding what drugs are available on the NHS of “massive incompetence” that could lead to up to 10,000 people in the UK going blind unnecessarily.
Read MoreAlmost half of all hospital kitchens in England are failing to meet basic standards of cleanliness, with evidence of medical waste found on food handling equipment, staff with poor standards of hygiene and infestations of cockroaches and mice, according to inspection reports.
Read MoreVictoria Climbie’s little body had 128 injuries. The social services department blamed for her death is now facing another scandal after the death of a toddler.
{mosimage}An inquiry has been launched into the conduct of social workers at Haringey Council in North London following the death of the 17-month- old boy, who had been subjected to appalling abuse.
Despite being monitored by social workers, the boy suffered a broken back and fractured ribs. He is also believed to have had a number of his fingernails removed by pliers.
The case – currently being treated as suspicious death – is expected to be officially turned into a murder inquiry this week.
Details have emerged about the missed opportunities to save the boy.
For months he had been watched by social workers from Haringey, the authority blamed for a series of catastrophic blunders which led to the death of African-born eight-year-old Victoria Climbie.
Read MoreA care assistant who covered an elderly dementia sufferer’s head with a plastic bag as a punishment has been convicted of ill treatment of a patient. Liudas Poderis, 35, attacked Stanley Kelly, 88, at Southfield nursing home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, last November.
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