Care Homes
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Devoted wife surprises dementia-stricken husband by moving into his care home
Story and video from SWNS This is the moving moment a devoted wife surprised her dementia-stricken husband by moving into his care home after a month apart - because she 'can't live without him'. Pensioner Kenneth Meredith, 96,
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Beware the hidden cost of care
The cost of care is eye-watering, with fees set around an average of £30,000 a year for residential care and £40,000 for nursing care. But that's just the start of it. Care homes fleece their residents for all kinds of outrageous things on
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The five regions where care will cost more than the value of your home
If you need to pay for care in your old age, then there's a very real risk that you will end up having to sell your family home in order to cover the costs. But that's not the worst of it: new research has revealed that in five regions
3-min read - HealthAOL
Care home provider fined over death
The biggest care home provider in the UK has been ordered to pay £170,000 in fines and costs after a "vulnerable and elderly" woman choked to death on fish and chips. Four Seasons Health Care (England) was prosecuted by the Health and
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UK care home death rate soars
Death rates in UK care homes are soaring. A decade ago there were an estimated 38,000 deaths in care homes a year. Last year the death rate hit more than 103,000, according to new figures uncovered by Professor Brian Jarman at Imperial College
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Son spends mum's savings instead of paying for care
Simon Shonn (49), of Suthers Street, Radcliffe, Bury, was given control of his mother's savings when 75-year-old Irene Shonn's Alzheimer's meant she needed to live in a care home. He was meant to pay the home £665 a week for
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Care home owner agrees £825m sale
The owner of 445 care homes which is responsible for looking after some 20,000 residents has agreed to be sold to financier Guy Hands' private equity firm for £825 million. Four Seasons Health Care, the UK's largest independent