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Dementia: what legal and financial planning should I consider?
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Ageing in place technology: revolutionising retirement living
The innovation team from ExtraCare Charitable Trust recently triumphed at the Senior Housing Awards, winning the “Best Use of Technology in Seniors Housing” award. Here, their Research and Technology Lead Kerry Stack explains how their appliance of science is breaking down barriers and helping older people age in place.
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Twenty top tips for working from home
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Older people: making our case to the Older People’s Housing Taskforce
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Providing health care, social care, community support and housing for older people: a good practice model
Some thirty years ago, writes Peter Dale, the Rye Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital in East Sussex was threatened with closure. Today, it is an example of what can be achieved by a combination of professional collaboration, community involvement and a willingness to “join the dots” between services.
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Why are numbers of residents with dementia in care homes increasing?
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Older Londoners need more help with finding jobs – and less discrimination
Many of the capital’s economically inactive people aged 50 and above face disadvantages, including ageism, when seeking employment. Tim Whitaker, Trustee of WiseAge, says we need a new agenda for looking at London’s older workers – one which addresses the key problems faced by many of them. The government has been prompting older people back…
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Methodist Homes: on a mission to “fix care for all”
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Webinar tackles social care crisis through “homeshare” option
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Enough is enough: A call for change in the Work Capability Assessment
“The WCA doesn’t need to be so punitive, complex or soul-destroying for sick and disabled people when it comes to benefits and work in the UK,” writes Lee Healey, Founder of Age Action Alliance members IncomeMax CIC, who has shared his response to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to the consultation on the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).
