60 Plus
15 February 2013 - Equal opportunities law aims to create a 'level playing field' so that people are employed, paid, trained and promoted only because of their skills, abilities and how they do their job.
Discrimination happens when an employer tr
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25 January 2013 - Every care home should be monitored and inspected on a regular basic. The frequency of these visits depends on its previous rating and information supplied by residents, the public or local authorities. Each care home must conform with Government reg
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28 July 2012 - At last the FSA 'seem' to be doing something to stop the banks and other financial institutions mis-selling financial products. This is long overdue and I cannot understand why it has taken so long. Dependant upon how effective these new rule
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18 June 2012 - The Human Rights Act does not protect the elderly in care homes and hospitals. The only cover for the elderly under the Human Rights Act is for those residents whose fees are paid by their local authority or patients in NHS Institutions. The study ha
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25 April 2012 - Care homes are coming under increasing attack for the care received by their residents. Another care home has been under investigation by the Care Quality Commission where a male nurse was jailed following his abuse of an elderly woman in the care ho
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12 April 2012 - It has been revealed that thousands of patients are being sent home to relieve the pressure on beds in the middle of the night. Some of them being elderly patients who have to go home to empty houses with little or no planning for their return home.
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28 March 2012 - Threatening demands are being received for tax payments, particularly by the elderly, who have not underpaid tax. In November 2011 HMRC advised that over a million people had underpaid tax due to their tax codes not changing when they retired or comm
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27 March 2012 - A report reveals that as many as 14,000 elderly people are considered too old to treat and although cancer rates are high in the over 75s, cases are often diagnosed too late and then life-saving treatment is denied. It has been found by Macmillan Can
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20 March 2012 - A report has revealed that there is a lack of qualified nurses on elderly wards and the ratio on average is one nurse to every nine patients whereas the Royal College of Nursing requires one nurse to every seven patients, with the ideal ratio being o
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16 March 2012 - Elderly people and their families to keep a dairy to prove misstreating carers For those elderly people who wish to remain at their own homes, a report has revealed that there are a catalogue of missed visits, food and drink being left out of reach,
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08 March 2012 - The buyer of a house in Essex, Mr Hurst, who is an elderly man and keeps himself to himself, was told that there were no problems with the neighbours and he has launched a legal battle for compensation from the seller as it turns out that his neighbo
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07 March 2012 - A new report has shown that whilst in some areas the care of elderly residents in care homes is very good, there are a great number of care homes who are falling short of basic care needs and standards. The report, commissioned by the Care Quality Co
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06 March 2012 - Under the current legislation, any pensioner who has more than £23,500 in savings or any other assets, has to pay the full costs of their care home fees. This means that some elderly have to sell their homes and dip into their savings until the
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24 January 2012 - As the NHS has to make savings of around £20 billion, it has been revealed by a survey by the Health Select Committee. The majority of the cuts are on social care budgets with the average cut being 7%. It is reported that half the councils surv
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21 November 2011 - Town Hall cuts across the country are now affecting the most vulnerable in our society. Free care to the elderly at home is reportedly being cut in more than four out of five councils across the nation. The services which will be affected are home he
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