Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company Lancashire’s Reform-run council has been accused of “selling off the family silver” with plans to save £4m a year by closing five council-run care homes and five day centres and selling off the land. One of the care home residents, a 92-year-old woman, said she would leave only by “being forcibly removed or in a box”. Continue reading...

John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush face off in James Ashcroft’s thriller about a man who menaces his fellow elderly residents with a hand puppet.

NICE has said it expects to evaluate dozens of potential treatments for Alzheimer’s disease over the next few years. Elisabeth Mahase examines what we know about these drugs This year the National In...

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Despite growing public interest in death, support for end-of-life care and bereavement remains inadequate. We urgently need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying...

The first steps to creating a National Care Service are announced - but critics say the pace of the plan "feels far too long".

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Welcome to this special interview with two of the three distinguished professors who have been appointed as Professorial Chairs for the newly established Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) at B...

A lack of funding and staff are blamed as hospices close beds permanently or take them out of use.

Wearable tech claims to help monitor our health, but many doctors remain sceptical.

This cohort study examines the ratio between hospital- and community-onset respiratory viral infections at different levels of testing and masking from 2020 to 2024.

This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of prioritizing social determinants of health in reducing health disparities and advancing health equity.