An MP has tabled a Bill to end the “appalling injustice” of older people being victimised by “unscrupulous individuals” through Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA). Labour MP Fabian Hamilton (pictured)
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More than 19,000 Scots now have a court-appointed welfare guardian, according to new figures showing that the number of welfare guardianship orders in Scotland is at an all-time high. The
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A therapist accused of raping and sexually assaulting a client said his penis was “like a laser beam” which could “burn up trauma” while using penetration as a “therapeutic technique”,
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Poor communication around do not resuscitate orders have left people scared of “ageist and ableist attitudes and behaviours in the NHS”, according to a report. Experts said more must be
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A care home allegedly told a woman her grandmother had been dead for 10 minutes when the family is sure she died a “considerable period of time” before that, an
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A fresh study backs up an earlier finding of a link between children taking taking up an instrument and improved thinking in later life, researchers have said. People who had
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A man told police he killed his partner and buried her body in the garden, an inquest heard, with her family saying he convinced them she was alive for three
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A woman whose father died from Covid-19 after he caught the illness in hospital has called for urgent changes to infection control policies and the treatment of bereaved families so
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A woman has admitted to killing her newborn baby with cling film after she was wrongfully convicted of his murder. Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, pleaded guilty to one charge of culpable
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A “vulnerable” 18-year-old woman should not go home after leaving hospital because her mother is living with a convicted paedophile, a High Court judge has ruled. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot has
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