Funding support from the local authority is limited to the set rate which they pay for a given care need and this will vary from...

The number of women who have not had children has more than doubled in a generation, from 9% of those born in the 1940s to 19% of women...

More people are receiving adult social care in England following years of decline, official data shows.   Councils funded long-term care...

The Government has announced the launch of an independent commission to review adult social care and how it is funded, which will be led...

A new drug, the first  Alzheimer's  treatment to be developed in more than 20 years, has been heralded as 'the beginning of the end' for...

The Alzheimer’s Society is braced for its busiest time of the year for its support helpline.   As families come together over Christmas,...

The financial situation facing Directors of Adult Social Care is as bad as it has been in recent history. Adult social care budgets for...

Research has found that unpaid carers aged 65 and over are worried about the health implications of caring, with 32% worried about...

We are moving towards a four-generation society.  Many people, predominantly women, provide unpaid care for one or more older person...

Social care problems are among the reasons that the NHS is in a “critical condition”, a government adviser has warned, in a report...

Prof Martin Green, head of Care England, has claimed that  Budget   plans to raise employers' contributions from 13.8 to 15 per cent...

The disability-free life expectancy at age 65 ranges from 8.11 years in the North East to 11.0 years in the South East for females, and...