The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report today (Tuesday 3 July) following the completion of 20 local authority area reviews, exploring how older people move between health and social care services and making recommendations for change.
Individuals and employers should pay a new contribution into a dedicated fund set aside to help pay for the growing demand for adult social care and implement funding reforms, with the current system ‘not fit to respond to the demographic trends of the future’, MPs have concluded.
Researchers at the University of Warwick and Keele have published a new study, which helps us understand the role of metals like iron in the brain. Head of Research at Alzheimer's Society, Dr James Pickett, comments.