Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

One in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life.
The disease tends to affect older people – but can strike at any time.
Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than 270,000 new cases of the disease in 2001 – and the rate is increasing by about 1% a year.
Some cancer, [...]

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Stroke services are improving, but there are still some gaps in care, an audit of hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has shown.
The Royal College of Physicians quizzed 224 hospitals about their services.
The study, funded by the Healthcare Commission watchdog, found improvements, particularly in provision of clot-busting thrombolytic drugs.
But it concluded [...]

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A new vaccine has completely eliminated a type of breast cancer tumour in tests on mice, say researchers.
The vaccine targets breast cancer caused by an excess of a protein called HER2 – and even destroyed tumours resistant to current drugs.
The US team said it might also be used to prevent initial development of [...]

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Every cardiac rehabilitation service in the UK is understaffed, the British Heart Foundation has warned.
The programmes are reckoned to boost five-year survival rates by about 26% by giving medical and lifestyle advice.
But a national audit found that no service was meeting minimum staffing levels – and three out of five patients who need [...]

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Thousands of elderly people are having their life-savings, possessions and homes stolen by members of their own family, a charity has claimed.
The scale of the problem was “huge and terrifying” with cash and property worth tens of millions of pounds taken last year, Action on Elder Abuse said.
Solicitors say the rise in financial [...]

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