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Category: Health and Care News

Understanding dementia: a novel approach to cut across the generational divide

How do you help children understand about someone in their family who has dementia? A leading figure in later life housing and care has found a novel way to bridge the divide… with a detective story. Review by Tony Watts OBE

August 7, 2025
Launch of simple device to build leg strength in the elderly – reducing frailty and preventing falls

Falls are estimated to cost the NHS more than £2.3 billion per year. Now, a simple and inexpensive exercise device is being launched which the inventors say could radically reduce those statistics.

August 4, 2025
Extreme summer heat “could lead to more than 5,000 UK deaths this year”

Statistical analysis by The Centre for Ageing Better shows this summer has had more extreme temperatures and more heat health alerts than at the same time in 2022 – a year in which a high number of excess deaths from heat were recorded.

July 21, 2025
Dementia, loneliness and overnight security concerns prompting homeshares

The Homeshare Association has published its latest Homeshare Report 2025 which reveals an invaluable insight into the key factors that are steering a growing interest in homeshare arrangements.

July 18, 2025
1.6 million older carers worry whether they’ll be able to keep providing support

In Carers Week 2025, Age UK is calling on Government to provide more support for unpaid carers and is highlighting the concerning position of our 2.1 million unpaid older carers (65+) who shoulder an enormous amount of responsibility, often without the support they need.

June 13, 2025
Trust’s “community of innovators” plans to improve lives of older people

The St Monica Trust in Bristol has held the South West’s first-ever Healthy Ageing and Care Innovation Forum – with older residents playing a key role to make “co-design” a reality and not just an ambition.

May 1, 2025
Urgent need to “ramp up dementia diagnosis and support”

A new report from ILC UK says that more than half of people with dementia are either undiagnosed or have no care plan. Improving dementia care and support, they say, could dramatically boost health, wellbeing – and even the economy. The new publication by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC), supported by the Alzheimer’s Society…

May 1, 2025
Stroke-affected people to benefit from “life changing” funding boost

Bristol After Stroke has received a major funding boost to provide life-changing counselling and emotional support for local people.

April 25, 2025
Report reveals health and finance struggles of older private renters in energy-inefficient homes 

A new report from the charity Independent Age has revealed the difficult experience of older private renters in cold, energy in-efficient homes and the barriers in making the necessary property improvements.  

April 25, 2025
Covid’s seismic shock on older people “still felt five years on”

Older people’s health, employment and community connection have failed to recover since the pandemic, our new analysis from The Centre for Ageing Better reveals.

March 25, 2025

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