OlderLivingMatters

Older and vulnerable people deserve to know more - and better.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP yesterday announced the Care Quality Commission, the 'care regulator', is 'not fit for purpose - to...

Is this what campaigners for 'assisted dying' envisage? People preferring to die because the life that has been inflicted on them is so awfu

The overwhelming majority of care homes which have been forced to close by the Care Quality Commission have been for-profit homes,...

Care home reports are based on the Ofsted inspection system and are failing care home residents and families.

Sorry, it has been a long time, more than 18 months, since OLM last posted a blog. And, sad to say, not much has changed. Care homes,...

With Covid cases increasing again in care homes, campaigners are demanding the government organise weekly testing of care staff to...

The country may be shocked, but the Care Quality Commission cannot be surprised at the recent increase of COVID-19 in some of the care...

Partial, confusing, incomplete. The long-promised data published recently by the Care Quality Commission are worse than useless in...

The CQC's carefully-selected information implies the entire care home industry is unsafe

The service had a high number of infections and deaths due to Covid 19

one in five care homes for older people is currently not meeting the required standards

England’s care regulator, the CQC, is poised to reveal how many Covid outbreaks have been in homes which it knew were unsafe

the CQC maintained the 'public interest' would not be served by the publication of this information

Even though CQC inspectors have said these homes are substandard, and sometimes have been for years, they are home to many thousands of olde

When I heard a few days ago that the high-end care home where my father had lived, had 16, yes 16, cases of Covid-19, I was not surprised

Worst Care of 2018 - awards for worst care in a corporate home, worst care in an independent home, worst care provider.

Worst care of the year - Yorkshire, Lancashire, Bristol, Devon, Lincolnshire, Birmingham, Essex, Manchester

Families voiced concerns but the website boasts: 'In our care homes we specialise in providing quality care.' [sic]

One family had taken the extraordinary step of employing a private carer to come into the home