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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      How to pay for long-term old age care

      If you can, save early as costs are rising - by more than a fifth in the past five years

    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Chicken-foot broth: a short story by Will Harris

      ‘Jim’s expression is curious, tortoise-like. He looks at you like a family member he hasn’t seen in a long time’

    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      An ageing society can’t turn its back on social care any longer

      Governments have promised to tackle the crisis for 25 years, but it’s never an election winner

      Illustration of a frail elderly man with glasses sitting at a table in front of a paisley wallpapered wall
    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      UK government defends handling of Covid in care homes

      Response follows report accusing former health secretary Matt Hancock of rejecting expert advice on testing

      Matt Hancock
    • Monday, 14 March, 2022
      Covid care home policy a ‘devastating failure’, High Court told

      Families and lawyers attack government decision to transfer elderly and disabled from hospital

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      HC-One Ltd
      UK’s biggest care home chain paid £4.8m to owners while requesting state aid

      HC-One asked for support to help it through pandemic and received £18.9m from government fund

      A care home in Scotland operated by HC-One
    • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
      Social affairs
      Social care in England set to suffer as Covid jab deadline for workers looms

      Sector leaders say some homes might have to close as some 32,000 staff remain unvaccinated

      A member of the public receives a dose of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine
    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      UK refuses to reduce 12-week gap between care homes jabs

      Ministers stand firm despite pressure from sector and rise in infections among residents

    • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
      Hester Le Riche
      Isolation is becoming a second pandemic for the elderly

      Fast-track testing in care homes is vital to stop the damage visitor restrictions are doing

      A pilot Covid-19 testing programme is making it possible for some care home residents to receive visitors but experts say it needs to be rolled out nationally immediately
    • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Scottish hospitals sent positive Covid patients into care homes

      Official public health report increases pressure on SNP over high virus death rates

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      UK immigration
      Home Office rejects easing of health recruitment rules

      Migration Advisory Committee had called for loosening of post-Brexit restrictions

    • Monday, 3 August, 2020
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain must act now to protect the elderly

      Boris Johnson should make good on pledge to save social care system

      The chronic underfunding of social care cannot be ignored
    • Monday, 13 July, 2020
      UK immigration
      UK ministers under fire over new rules for EU care workers

      Points-based immigration means most foreign carers would not qualify for entry visas

    • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Coronavirus spike forces hospital in UK PM’s constituency to close A&E

      Emergency admissions to Hillingdon hospital in London halted after number of staff test positive

      Hillingdon hospital was forced to shut its A&E after about 70 staff either tested positive for Covid-19 or were forced to self-isolate
    • Monday, 6 July, 2020
      Boris Johnson
      Johnson lambasted for ‘outrageous’ care home deaths comment

      Sector rejects PM’s suggestion that providers were not following procedures

    • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
      UK housebuilding
      McCarthy & Stone reports lower coronavirus death rate in its retirement housing

      UK company urges government to boost investment in housing for elderly

      McCarthy & Stone has roughly 20,000 residents across 441 sites
    • Friday, 22 May, 2020
      Next Act
      ‘We don’t get paid for empty beds’: the crisis facing UK care home operators

      Coronavirus has piled pressure on an already struggling sector, increasing costs and hitting fees

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      Hancock claim of ‘protective ring’ round care homes questioned

      ONS figures show care home deaths in England and Wales could be double official toll

    • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Coronavirus deaths more than twice hospital toll, data indicate

      Official death statistics for England and Wales suggest the crisis is more severe than previously thought

      Undertakers wearing personal protective equipment carry a coffin during a funeral in Chislehurst, south London, earlier this month
    • Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
      UK social care
      Families of dying in care homes to get right to say goodbye 

      Government promises procedures to limit infection during coronavirus outbreak but gives no specific measures

    • Friday, 10 April, 2020
      Camilla Cavendish
      We must break down the boundaries between NHS and social care

      The crisis is shedding light on the vital role of an unheralded army of workers

      Artwork for FTWeekend Comment - issue dated 11.04.20
    • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
      Q&AChart that Tells a Story
      The rising cost of care  

      Wealth gap opens up as few can afford the price of residential care

    • Sunday, 13 October, 2019
      More Four Seasons care homes at risk of closure

      Rent woes raise fears for future of thousands of elderly residents

      Caregiver helping an elderly woman with her walking aid outdoors in the grounds of the retirement home.
    • Thursday, 3 October, 2019
      Four Seasons Health Care Ltd
      Troubled care home operator fails to pay landlords

      Fears for residents after Four Seasons keeps back rent without warning

      Caregiver helping an elderly woman with her walking aid outdoors in the grounds of the retirement home.
    • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
      Four Seasons to be taken over by H/2 Capital Partners

      US hedge fund to assume control of most of care home chain’s portfolio in £400m deal

      File photo dated 18/05/17 of an elderly man. The Government must substantially invest in the social care system to avert the risk of "total collapse" in the worst-affected areas, a charity has warned. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday August 31, 2019. Age UK said health and social care services were operating in a "perfect storm of limited financial resources, significant workforce challenges, and increasingly complex population needs". In a new report, Health and Care of Older People in England 2019, the charity said that social care remains stuck in "purgatory" while demand rises daily. See PA story HEALTH SocialCare. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
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