Care home workers believe wearing pyjamas during night-shifts could help people with dementia know it is bedtime, according to a poll. Around one in 10 already don nightwear in the
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A major rethink is needed of the “broken” system underpinning elderly residential care provision, writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell has said. The Labour peer and former government voice of older
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Specialists have been given the go-ahead to swab the mouth of an elderly dementia sufferer so DNA tests can be carried out in a bid to establish whether he fathered
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A care home in Liverpool has been evacuated after a blaze broke out. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to the Rodney House care home in Canning
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Bupa Care Homes has won an appeal against a £3 million fine imposed over the death of an 86-year-old man in Essex from Legionnaires’ disease. Kenneth Ibbetson died after contracting
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A consultant who admitted failing to cooperate at the inquest of a mentally ill teenager who killed herself in care will finally be sentenced later this month after a court
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Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to a veteran who died with no known family. Members of the public were invited to the funeral of 100-year-old
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Scottish Care, the representative body for Scotland’s independent care home sector, has announced details of the finalists for their 2019 National Care Home Awards. The awards, which will form part
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A former Four Seasons Health Care worker has been arrested over allegations of sexual abuse at two residential care homes in Belfast. Police say the man, aged 48, was arrested
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Boris Johnson’s former preparatory school had a “Spartan and unforgiving” culture, where sexual abuse of pupils during the Prime Minister’s time there was not reported to authorities, the Independent Inquiry
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