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Long-term care

July 2024

  • Vanessa Aylwin in 2021.

    The long read
    ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s

    The long read: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her

June 2024

  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

    A daughter who gave up full-time work to help look after her mother reveals her emotional and financial struggle

April 2023

  • old man holding on to walking aid

    Care homes in England using ‘revenge evictions’ to stifle complaints from residents

    Nearly 6,000 people were given notices to quit last year, and many of these came after issues were raised

May 2021

  • Winterbourne View residential hospital, which featured in the BBC’s Panorama report in 2011.

    Winterbourne View lessons have not been learned 10 years on

    Margaret Flynn and Vic Citarella lament that their report on care home abuse in 2011 has not brought necessary change

March 2021

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Covid has thrust thousands of people into caring roles. They deserve our support

    Gaby Hinsliff
    Kate Garraway’s brave film about caring for her husband should start a conversation about how society will help, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

October 2020

  • A care home resident using a walker

    Social care in England needs input of at least £7bn a year, say MPs

    Full cost of adequately funding sector is likely to run into tens of billions, committee says

September 2020

  • Sally Warren, oof the King’s Fund. For Society

    The Society interview
    Sally Warren: 'Covid has brutally exposed the fragilities of the care sector'

  • Patience Owen: ‘I feel no ease, for myself or countless others.’

    'Frail' people like me should not be denied lifesaving Covid care

    Patience Owen

August 2020

  • Mark Adams, chief executive of Community Integrated Care, for Society interview

    The Society interview
    Mark Adams: Care homes have been left to prepare for a Covid second wave alone

    Care home chief says support for the sector is non-existent and describes the delay to weekly testing for care workers and residents as a ‘joke’

April 2020

  • A rainbow poster in a window at a care home in Manchester

    Social care 'an afterthought' in UK coronavirus response, says leaked letter

  • Margaret and Derek Eaton

    Coronavirus threatens the safety net I've built around my at-risk parents

March 2020

  • Older person

    Care homes refusing to take in patients ready to leave NHS hospitals

    Bosses say it would be madness to expose elderly residents and staff to coronavirus risk

February 2020

  • Old people's home

    Social care leaders criticise plans for immigration salary threshold

    Sector fears missing out on desperately needed staff as a result of government’s plans

March 2019

  • An elderly woman's hand on a walking stick with a care worker supporting her arm

    Brexit has ganged up with Alzheimer’s against my mother

    Anne Penketh
    With politics utterly gridlocked, the most vulnerable people in society are floundering in a policy vacuum, writes journalist and author Anne Penketh

October 2018

  • A woman with a walking frame

    US hedge fund puts Britain's biggest care home operator up for sale

    Four Seasons failed to pay off a portion of debt owed to H/2 Capital Partners

August 2018

  • Dr Sarah Wollaston

    Government's 'care Isa' plan dismissed by Tory health committee chair

    Dr Sarah Wollaston labels as ‘colossal mistake’ proposed Isa where inheritance tax is axed

May 2018

  • Charter call in Winterbourne report<br>File photo dated 01/06/11 of Winterbourne View residential hospital, as a report into the care of people with learning difficulties has called for the creation of a “charter of rights” to protect patients, following a scandal at the private hospital after undercover filming by BBC’s Panorama programme showed serious abuse by workers. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday November 26, 2014. The document makes a series of recommendations, including giving patients and their families the power to challenge the system and request a personal care budget. Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, chaired an independent group which developed the action plan entitled Winterbourne View - Time for Change. See PA story HEALTH Care. Photo credit should read: Tim Ireland/PA Wire

    Seven years on from Winterbourne View, why has nothing changed?

    Saba Salman
    Learning disabled people are still at risk of being abused and dying unnecessarily in institutions. This is unacceptable

December 2017

  • Four Seasons Health Care runs hundreds of homes in Britain.

    Urgent talks over future of Four Seasons care homes in UK

    Creditor H/2 makes concessions amid crisis at health firm caring for 17,000 elderly and vulnerable people

November 2017

  • Elderly woman holds cup of tea

    Solutions and innovations
    UK and US 'must learn from poor countries' to solve ageing crisis

  • Former Liberal Democrat cabineA demonstration by former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister and campaigners against Theresa May’s social care policy during the 2017 General Election campaign. t minister Ed Davey (C) demonstrates with campaigners against British Prime Minister Theresa May’s social care policy or “Dementia Tax” in London on June 2, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLISJUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Adult social care
    Social care funding can't take any more setbacks. It needs reform now

    Jane Ashcroft
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