OlderLivingMatters

Care home groups are good at demanding more money but are not always so good at delivering good care - at any price

Since 2014, the CQC has overturned just 21 ratings given by inspectors - contrasting with 36,000 reports into adult care

If you think a home is terrible and deserves to be named and shamed, then send in a nomination

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...

I have called this ‘I wouldn’t bother’, because this was something my Dad said an awful lot, when he didn’t want a fuss. And I know now...

Britain's care home providers will be forced to declare their links to offshore tax havens By Sarah Whitebloom, Financial Mail On Sunday...

The Consultant did not mention dementia.

Worst care homes of the week - Calderdale Retreat, C&V Orchard and Barchester's Kingsland House in Shoreham

Always be mindful, you never know the minute....a time will come when you will miss this

It was a relief to know her husband wasn't the only one whose things were stolen

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

Such is the choice, it is hard to decide which should be the worst care home of the week. There is one obvious candidate – with five...

No one has told them what help they could get - in terms of benefits or transport or even a blue badge...they trundle along unnoticed, never

Whenever I talk to an older person or someone who cares for older people they have a lot to say - an awful lot to say - on all sorts of...

Residents were out of bed, dressed and in the lounge - and it was only 4.30am. Life inside an Inadequate home.

Another week, another slew of disgraceful reports on England’s residential homes. The care industry’s glass may be half full, but it is...

It was not a good week for the care industry. More than 50 care homes for older people were found to be Inadequate or Require Improvement...

Two care homes a day were last week given the worst possible rating by official inspectors. In a week where approaching one half of care...

Don't panic. But Britain seems to have the highest rate of deaths from dementia in the world - far higher than most other comparable...

Had they any idea how long it takes older people to be ready for visitors in the morning? They would have to sleep in the sitting room, full