Super-fit octogenarian Mavis Paterson is 81-years-old and is peddling her way across Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats, in tribute to her children.
If she completes the 960-mile ride, the grandmother will become the oldest person to cycle from Land’s End to... Read more
Both the County Council Network and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services have praised Somerset County Council for appearing on BBC1’s Panorama highlighting the reform of social care.
The first of a two-part documentary broadcast on Wednesday, 29 May... Read more
A network of dementia support groups across the UK have taken to creating their own political banners to show they are still living fulfilling lives, have something to say and that they mean to be listened to.
Photographer Ian Beasley is one of the artists in... Read more
NHS England has reached a deal with drug manufacturer Roche to provide multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with a ‘landmark’ drug, which is said to be able to delay the need for a wheelchair by seven years.
The drug ocrelizumab (also known as ocrevus) is a revolutionary... Read more
Care worker Jordan Adlard-Rodgers has left his job and council house behind to move into a country manor on a 1,536 acre estate, after a DNA test made him the sole heir of a £50 million estate.
Jordan Adlard-Rodgers, who worked as a community support worker for... Read more
A community-based health and social care team in Thanet has succeeded in reducing ‘bed-blocking’ in the district’s busy hospitals, by integrating care workers, GPs, doctors, nurses, therapists and volunteers into a single team for the first time.
The Thanet Acute... Read more
A game changing ‘pink drink’ brain cancer treatment championed by the late Tessa Jowell is to become widely available on the NHS, the health secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Whilst the treatment has been in use in a few NHS hospitals over the past decade, it will now... Read more
Whilst the uncertainty over care workers' rights for sleep-in shift work continues, the long-awaited hearing for the Supreme Court has finally been announced, but it’s not until February 2020.
The Supreme Court is the highest court of appeal in the UK, and it is... Read more
Losing your partner in life and becoming a widow is life-changing, yet Mary Essinger, who lost her husband Ted in 2005, reveals there is also a “positive side to being single again” and says “losing a husband sometimes means finding oneself”.
Mary, who is 87, believes... Read more
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Care worker Michelle Jackson has been named 'home care professional of the month' after she saved the life of a diabetic man.
The 29-year-old who works part-time for Caremark (Kirklees) noticed her client slurring his words and looking unwell during one of her visits. Ms... Read more
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