A new study aims to produce an over-arching decision-making healthcare model in North Wales by focusing on patients with dementia – a disease that costs the UK £26.3 billion a
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The Chief Executive of The Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland, has called on the PSNI to ensure perpetrators of crimes against older people are brought to justice following
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Care & Repair Cymru, RNIB Cymru and Action on Hearing Loss Cymru, have announced a new partnership to deliver a critical prevention service, to be known as Managing Better, for
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End-of-life care in England is heading for a “meltdown”, a leading cancer charity has warned. Many dying patients are not getting proper pain relief, they are not being involved in
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Health-conscious “new men” may be largely responsible for a dramatic reduction in rates of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia over the past 20 years, research suggests. Despite fears of
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Ofgem has decided there is “no case to open an investigation” into a controversial partnership between the energy supplier E.ON and the charity Age UK. Age UK was criticised for
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Eight care home staff, including the owner and the cleaner, have gone on trial accused of deliberately neglecting an elderly and vulnerable man who was left to live in conditions
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De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is using the skills of academics and clinicians to help tackle one of the biggest health challenges facing society. The care of older people is
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A booklet published by Swansea University seeks to highlight the ‘magic moments’ that happen in care homes that very often go under the radar. All too often media publicity around
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Cardiff Met’s School of Health Sciences has teamed up with Derwen Cymru to launch a health and wellbeing suite at one of Derwen’s sheltered housing complexes. The ‘Keeping Well in
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