A care company boss has been jailed for swindling a housebound 89-year-old woman out of thousands of pounds by using the pensioner’s bank card to play internet bingo up to seven times a day.

More than 1,000 people in Devon who receive home care could be affected by proposed cuts of £4m to social services.

A suicidal Beckley man was told by a social worker that the best thing for his depression was a brisk walk each morning.

Councils invited to bid for share of fund to help deliver adult social care services with lower budgets

Elderly people should have to pay no more than £50,000 for care in old age, council chiefs say today as they add to the pressure on ministers to reform the system.

VULNERABLE and older people in Swadlincote are to be given more than £40,000 of support to help with their wellbeing.