Older people
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Toksvig’s play has plenty of good gags but there’s far too little characterisation, leaving an experienced ensemble treading water
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Minister David Mowat claims responsibility for social care rests with families. Our readers have debated his stance
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Letters: The government persists in relying on ‘the market’ for the provision of something ‘the market’ does not want to provide: economic housing
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Encouraging older people to move out of large houses has been suggested as a way to free up homes for younger families. So what’s it like to sell up and go smaller?
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Letters: The long list of government ‘responses’ to the healthcare crisis includes anything but the progressive system of taxation that is needed
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Anyone with an elderly relative in need of medicalised social care should prepare to deal with a shockingly underfunded and uncompassionate system
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Letters: Tenants need an emergency housing bill which places an immediate freeze on rent increases prior to introducing rent controls
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Housing rethink to incentivise building of sheltered accommodation to encourage older people to sell large houses
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Letters: It is not lack of love for our parents which has led to this situation, but an economy and a society much changed since the 1950s
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The Croydon suburb has been named a safe space for people with dementia, an idea born in the cities of Japan. Campaigners now want London to become the world’s first dementia-friendly capital – but what would that mean?
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Continuity of care can reduce avoidable admissions and hospital costs, especially for heaviest users of system, BMJ says
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We’d like to hear from readers who have experiences as the Care Quality Commission warns of new challenges to the sector
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts
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I fell into the job by chance, but don’t regret it. We must teach men about the rewards of the role to tackle the recruitment crisis in care
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A government minister saying that it should be the responsibility of families to look after ageing parents looks like just another way of abdicating from state care
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Brief letters: Labour and Brexit | Place names | Christopher Bland obituary | Going decimal | Pensioners | Uses of Weetabix
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The idea that older people may not have family members who are able to help, or may have no family at all, seems not to have occurred to the government
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David Mowat says tackling care crisis will require people to be as responsible for their parents as they are their children
The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong