February 1, 2011 –

NEW DELHI: India has finally woken up to the needs of the country’s elderly. With the number of people in the 60-plus age group in India…

HARRISBURG - Sen. Pat Vance, a former nurse, decided she had heard enough about how Pennsylvania’s gaping budget deficit could be fixed by squeezing waste out of Medicaid and welfare program.

Source:Elderly care may be tested by cuts

January 27, 2011 –

A CARE worker stole her 92-yearold patient’s credit card whilst he slept -and then ran up a bill of nearly Pounds 2,000.

Deborah…

Source:Essex Chronicle; Chelmsford (UK) - Care worker stole credit card as patient, 92, slept

January 20, 2011 –

teAMs of matrons will be sent into hospitals to check the quality of elderly care.

Around 100 hospitals will be subject to the…

Source:Daily Mail (London, England), The - The Matron Hit Squads

Less red tape and more common sense is needed in caring for the elderly in Wales, a report from a group of organisations finds.

Source:Red tape ‘hinders elderly care’

January 12, 2011 –

A Consultation into the future of elderly people’s homes has been branded a “sham” after county councillors backed controversial plans to…

Source:East Kent Gazette, The; Sittingbourne (UK) - Consultation on elderly care is just a ’sham’

January 7, 2011 –

THE elderly and vulnerable will be “abandoned” in plans to cut social care for more than 1,600 people in East Sussex, charities have…

December 1, 2010 –

Increases in care charges and other fees will net the city council an extra Pounds 400,000 over 15 months.

Burial fees and the cost…

December 1, 2010 –

PEGGY WOOD was treated no better than an animal while she was in hospital in the days before her death, say her family.

The…

December 1, 2010 –

Byline: Daniel Martin Political Correspondent

TENS of thousands of elderly people are suffering appalling care at the hands of the…