A CARE home manager has been jailed for five years after trying to cheat two elderly residents out of £400,000.

Well-managed integrated care can reduce hospital admissions for elderly patients by at least a fifth, new research suggests.

Funding for research into dementia is to be more than doubled by 2015 in a bid to make Britain a world leader in the field, David Cameron has announced.

UK care homes may be transformed into places of learning, if a new range of courses from the University of the Third Age (U3A) is embraced by residential care providers.

Disillusioned by the “process bound approach” of working for a local authority, a social worker has told BASW England’s World Social Work Day event how setting up as an independent social worker had “given her pride back” in her profession.

Social workers should resist “becoming de-politicised and part of the status quo” and must not be afraid of reclaiming community work even though it has a reputation as “too radical”, a leading social work academic told BASW’s England conference.

Social workers should be given a more integral role in supporting teams of workers who assist with natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

Macmillan Cancer Support says cancer mortality rates for older people improving more slowly than for younger patients