OlderLivingMatters

Older people are people. They are us. If we are serious about stopping such crime, we need to ask why they are such easy targets and do some

Even well-funded private homes have been found guilty of providing too few staff – in a deliberate profit-related move.

Way to go WSCC. Who is giving you PR advice? The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

So problems on a postcard to the CMA

The report even questioned whether the case would have been handled differently had the men not had disabilities

What this case highlights is that injuries to adults with learning disabilities do not receive the same response.

Ms Keeley said: ‘This report is a damning account of serious multi-agency failure in the cases of Gary Lewis and Matthew Bates, for which no

Older people need to be brought back into society - where they can be protected. New 'hate' laws would underline their marginal stat

As of last autumn, Devon and Cornwall police had not prosecuted anyone for care abuse under the relevant act.

Even while the CQC was at Westacre there were allegations of abusive behaviour

Forest Care Village in Borehamwood was OLM’s unequalled Worst Care Home of the Week last week – not least because of a police investigati...

HERTFORDSHIRE police is investigating a death linked to Forest Care Village in Borehamwood, one of the UK’s biggest residential homes, am...

A damning CQC report this week reveals serious concerns over Forest Care Village in Borehamwood, where inspectors found a resident 'cryi

Residents terrified of physical attack, horrifying degradation and neglect and, in the week an elderly man died in a care home fire, appa...

The CQC's 'Blacklist' reveals the widespread extent o substandard care in English residential homes.

For the third week in a row, Barchester Healthcare is owner one of OLM’s worst care homes of the week. Barchester, one of the UK’s bigge...

Freedom of Information requests to England's police show 13 forces have investigated fewer than 10 cases of elder abuse

Investigators are looking at the safety of elderly and vulnerable residents in homes owned by Sussex Health Care, the care group led by an a