OlderLivingMatters

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

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

IT might seem ridiculous to ask, but the system for claiming benefits and getting access to services is so convoluted, so difficult, that...

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

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-5348457/One-eight-care-homes-shamed-watchdog.html One in eight care homes in England has...

Orchard Manor in Walsall was investigated after news of serious injuries

Can she really say no to an elderly lady, when she won't get any other holiday?

Caroline feels the rest of the family despise her and view her as boring

A reader has been in touch to say that she has spent the weekend hiding from her 89-year old mother. She feels as though she just...

Loneliness is not the only issue for older people - and neither is social care

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

I'm not doing it because I'm so great. I'm doing it because if it were my Mum and Dad, I would hope someone might befriend them

The Worst Care Provider of 2017 was Sussex Healthcare

Wiltshire Farm Foods meal - 'actively nasty'

What can you do, if Aunty or your parents refuse to come for Christmas? You can't make them come, can you?

The standard is particularly low this year, with many of the homes receiving multiple negative reports and all sitting on a current 'Ina

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-5163075/Care-homes-face-legal-action-failing-provide-care.html Britain’s care home industry...

I recently read this poem about losing a loved one by Henry Scott Holland. It seemed really pertinent to apply this to the feeling that...

In terms of worst care homes, Treetops in Epping has few rivals. It was so bad that it has closed and makes an appearance in this week’s...

In the United States, precisely this argument has been used legally to force care home owners to provide a decent service