The Care Inspectorate today launched an important new resource which aims to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia. The resource, ‘Promoting continence for people living with
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Living it Up describes itself as an online self-management hub, which aims to empower people to improve their health and wellbeing. Aimed at the over 50s, the resource is packed
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A plan to reduce deaths from a range of diseases is “highly unethical” because it discriminates against people aged 70 and over, according to leading medical experts. In a letter
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People with Alzheimer’s may not always experience memory loss as their first symptom of the disease, with younger people more likely to have problems with judgement, language or visual and
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The proportion of people dying in hospices in England has nearly doubled since 1993, but the gap in hospice deaths between people living in the least and most deprived areas
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An elderly cancer patient who spent his last days in avoidable agony and a mother who was forced to call an A&E doctor from another hospital ward as her son
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An innovative project looking at how evidence can be used to enrich practice, based on research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) A Better Life programme, has released its findings.
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David Cameron will “need to take bolder steps than any previous Prime Minister” in ensuring security and dignity for people in retirement, an open letter signed by 16 charities and
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Cardiff Metropolitan University’s CARIAD research centre has just been awarded an AHRC research grant of £500,000 over three years for its work in designing for people with dementia. The LAUGH
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Nearly two-thirds of people in Britain would like to see end of life care being made a priority by the new Government, according to a new study. The feedback comes
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