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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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