Training care home staff to properly help dementia sufferers could reduce the use of antipsychotic drugs by up to 50%, research suggests.

It was promised last autumn. Then it was the spring. Publication slipped until June and now we are told there will be nothing on government proposals to reform the funding of adult social care in England until at least July.

The care minister has shown a “complete lack of respect” for pensioners by backing out of attending the Pensioners’ Parliament, say the National Pensioners Convention.

Long-awaited moves to overhaul the social care system face yet more delays amid fresh signs of government alarm over their potential cost.

A NEW care service for older people that has opened in Dover will create 30 jobs across the district and another ten in Canterbury.

Treatments rationed and waiting times rising as some managers say NHS finances are the worst they have experienced

The forthcoming world conference on social work and social policy will be an opportunity to share best practice globally, by Dr Rory Truell.