By 2051, 60,000 people will suffer from dementia. The Assembly must look seriously at the provision of elderly care, says Kathryn Johnston

Northern Ireland’s care regulator, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA), has written to carehome.co.uk to highlight the qualities of the procedures and practices the organisation follows when regulating care provision, after it was heavily criticised last week by a former carer.

The treatment of people with chronic pain is to be discussed at conference in Northern Ireland today.

A former senior staff member at a Belfast care home has claimed patient neglect, dirty sinks and basic hygiene issues caused her to speak out after she feared patients’ lives were at risk.

Every resident in a Londonderry nursing home for vulnerable elderly people is being given flu prevention treatment in the wake of an outbreak of the virus.

Health Minister Edwin Poots has launched a Policy Framework for adults living with long term conditions.

Northern Ireland’s voluntary sector has warned the Department of Health that it must not be expected to plug the gaps that the government is unable to fund.

WOMEN in Northern Ireland are 40 per cent more likely to be admitted to a care home than men because their partners are unable to care for them, a study has found.

The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers has welcomed the publication of a strategy for the profession but again emphasised the need for more to be done about excessive bureaucracy and workloads facing overstretched practitioners.

Learning from the deaths of children, caused by abuse and neglect, has saved lives in Northern Ireland, says John Devaney