Data suggests that across all care types, the age at which people enter care is tending to reduce. Source: Trusted Care Professional...

Workforce recruitment and rising costs are forcing social care providers to turn down admissions and in some cases, to shut services...

Ms Simms, a nurse from Cardiff, said she was "astonished and furious" when her father’s care home told her she would have to start paying...

The number of care home residents who self-fund their fees has fallen by 12.4%. Based on data issued by the Office of National...

People who take Ukrainian refugees into their homes should not have the money they receive for doing so counted for the purposes of care...

In its latest State of Caring Report, Care UK found that: 1 in 8 UK adults or around 6.5 million people are providing unpaid care to an...

Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests that average life expectancy for retirees in the UK is now declining. The latest...

The number of care home residents in the year to February 2022 occupied 77.8% of available beds. Source: ONS

A council failed to adequately take into account a man’s circumstances in deciding not to disregard the costs of a holiday carer from his...

Sarah McClinton, who has taken up the presidency of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), reflected on almost a...

Carers UK chief executive Helen Walker believes that even more pressure is being loaded on exhausted carers who were already at breaking...

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed that over the last year, the number of care home residents has declined by...