Care Support Independence

General Care
Financial Times reports that the tightening of council budgets has had a particularly damaging effect on the care sector. (31 Aug)

The Daily Mail reports that Hull council is being taken to court over the case of an elderly man who died 2 weeks after being told that his care home was to close. (02 Sept)

In The Guardian, Chief Executive of the National Development Team for Inclusion Rob Grieg discusses issues surrounding residential care. (02 Sept)

Sunday Mirror reports on Harriet Harman’s campaign for carers to get time off work to help elderly or disabled relatives. The newspaper’s leading article contends that this support for carers is long overdue. (06 Sept)

Daily Mail writes that more that cuts in the care sector will result in over 200 000 elderly people losing their care at home. (07 Sept)

Dementia in the press
The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Metro, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and Financial Times report on a significant scientific discovery of new genes linked to Alzheimer’s. (07 Sept)

Chief Executive of the Alzheimer’s Society Neil Hunt writes in The Independent that funding for research into the disease needs to be increased. (07 Sept)

General
The Daily Telegraph reports that regular brisk walking can reduce death rates among the elderly. (31 Aug)