The increasing cost of treating dementia sufferers is the subject of an inquiry as it was revealed the funding needed should rise a third by 2018.

Doctors blame local councils for making it harder for older people to access home help, forcing them to stay in hospital

A ‘mockumentary’ of a royal visit to a day centre is helping to train carers of people with dementia

A FAILING Birmingham care home for disabled people has been shut down by the council after concerns were raised over patient safety.

FEARS are growing that the most vulnerable people in Yorkshire are not getting the care they need because of a staffing crisis in care homes across the region.

BASW has cautioned that the Home Office’s decision to end child detention at Yarl’s Wood removal centre needs to be merely a first step in efforts to people in the immigration system are treated with greater dignity and respect.

Mental health charity Rethink has lodged a complaint with Ofcom over a sketch by comedian which parodied attempts to tackle stigma around mental illness.

THE Island’s director for children and education, Colin Peak, has become the first high-profile casualty of the financial crisis facing the IW Council.

A hospital dementia unit at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham has been formally recognised for its work.

A new website will aim to help people who are at risk of losing their homes in the Black Country. Homeless Black Country has been developed by Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton councils.