The Government has issued a Green Paper on the need for extensive personal independence payment (PIP) reform. Proposals include changes...

Nottingham, Birmingham and Woking councils all went bust in 2023. They followed Thurrock and Croydon (for the third time) in 2022 - with...

The total number of adult social care workers rose from 17,300 to 18,500 in the year to September 2023, the highest level ever recorded....

Carers Week 2024 takes place from Monday 10th June until Sunday 16th June 2024. It's a national event to recognise and celebrate the UK's...

Planning remains one of the biggest challenges for the senior housing market as councils across England remain unprepared to provide...

New findings from the British Social Attitudes survey, published by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund, show that public satisfaction...

England’s system of means-testing for care of those who meet eligibility criteria is by far the least generous of the four UK nations....

Older people are routinely having their human rights breached because of a failure to tackle the “huge” Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards...

Everyone feels lonely from time to time. But for many of us, particularly those in later life, loneliness can start to define our lives...

If a care home resident receives local authority funded care, they will be allowed a weekly Personal Expenses Allowance. This is an...

It is estimated that 1 in 6 older people are victims of abuse. That’s over 16% of our mothers, fathers, uncles, aunties, grandparents,...

The funding reforms which propose to place a cap on people’s liability for personal care were due to come into force in October 2023 but...