The credit crunch is putting further pressure on councils’ ability to provide thousands of pounds in loans to help elderly people pay care home fees without selling their own properties.

THE Oxfordshire nursing home at the centre of a investigation following the death of eight residents in a two week period was last night told it was not responsible for their deaths.

Organisations in the health and social care sector are ignoring warnings of the dangers of electronic attack, major outbreaks of disease, and extreme weather conditions, and failing to take precautions, a report has warned.

Trusting families are being forced to leave their loved ones in the hands of unqualified staff in many UK care homes.

A care home is to be investigated after claims residents were neglected and mistreated. Merton Council has suspended placements at the privately run Eltandia Hall, Middle Way, Norbury, and has threatened to remove older people already there if the centre does not improve.

A new report by healthcare market analyst Laing & Buisson has found that only 57 per cent of dementia sufferers are receiving care from trained specialists, and the Alzheimer’s Society has repeated calls for person-centred

THE closure of a Mackworth care home has been approved by councillors despite its residents and their relatives being unanimously opposed.

NURSING home bosses have been criticised today after staff insisted an 86-year-old resident was safe in bed when she was actually wandering the streets at 10pm.

Person-centred dementia care can be taught quickly and should standard practice in residential care homes, according to an article to be published in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology.