Archive: Elderly

Unimaginative and tired, the Tories' leadership is just reinforcing defeat

Cameron and Osborne have become so fixated with the importance of sticking to the plan they have become bogged down in the tactics of defeat.

NARPO: Treatment of elderly police officers "astounding"

The National Association of Retired Police Officers is astounded at the attitude of the West Yorkshire Police towards elderly former police officers, who were forced to retire early from the Police Service following an injury they received whilst doing their duty. These officers are paid a pension to recognise the losses associated with their injury.
ESRC: Tackling financial exploitation of elderly people

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank account, thanks to a pioneering new study funded by the UK Research Councils’ New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA)
ESRC: Group interaction among elderly is the key to significant health outcomes

The health benefits of 'water clubs' in care homes for the elderly, where residents gather together regularly to drink water , owe as least as much to the social nature of the activity as to the value of drinking water itself, an investigation by psychologists has shown.
Trading Standards – protecting people, supporting businesses

Trading Standards plays an important role in local communities – from safeguarding vulnerable people to protecting young people's health and helping businesses to grow.

How politics trumped economics: The sorry tale of the coalition's welfare cap

Exempting the basic state pension leaves a big hole in the chancellor's plan.
Time to let go: Public ready to abandon universal benefits

The drift to end universal benefits for the elderly is backed by the public, according to a new poll.

Twinges of guilt? Spiritual agonies of the baby-boomers explored

Those born in the years after the Second World War are absorbing too much public spending, a senior Anglican has suggested.
Benefit cuts: Are pensioners next?

Pensioners could find themselves targeted for benefit cuts in the next Conservative manifesto, Iain Duncan Smith has suggested.

Quarter of social care services understaffed

Twenty-three per cent of care homes do not have adequate staffing levels, according to a report published today.
Energy companies attacked as hypothermia deaths soar

There were calls for energy bills to be slashed last night as evidence emerged of a dramatic rise in deaths from hypothermia.

UK's old age miseries revealed

Serious widespread failings in home care for older people are emerging, as MPs prepare to clash over plans to raise the retirement age.