Category - Elderly

Early retirement in England is increasingly the preserve of the wealthy as the less well-off are either forced to carry on working to make ends meet or are forced out of the labour market by ill health, research shows...

TUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb
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Rationing by councils, rather than the impact of strengths-based practice in reducing need, is the most likely explanation for falling numbers of people receiving adult social care amid record demand. That was the...

Hundreds of thousands of older people in England are having to endure chronic pain, anxiety and unmet support needs owing to the worsening shortage of social care staff and care home beds. Read the full article on this...

More people – mostly women – have been underpaid their state pension than previously thought, latest government figures show. A new estimate suggests 237,000 state pensioners were paid less than their...

Royal College of Physicians warns over lack of geriatricians, many of whom are themselves due to retire
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