Care workers use glove puppet to bully elderly women – BBC News
“Two care home workers have been given suspended jail sentences for using a Green Goblin glove puppet to bully elderly women.”
BBC News, 6th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: elderly
Disabled will suffer from assisted dying law, claim critics of new inquiry – Daily Telegraph
“Vulnerable elderly and disabled people will feel pressured to end their lives if the law on assisted dying is relaxed, disability campaigners have claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Death tax law ruled out next parliament – The Guardian
“Andy Burnham, the health secretary, will today rule out legislation in the next parliament to impose a death tax to pay for social care for the elderly, but will promise new laws to cap the cost of residential costs after two years in a home.”
The Guardian, 30th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Free care for vulnerable’ bill killed off by Lords coalition – The Guardian
“The government conceded that its eye-catching bill to provide free care at home for the vulnerable will have to wait until after the election after peers inflicted a series of defeats.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Consultation launched on upper age limit for jury service – Ministry of Justice
“The government today launched a consultation on raising the upper age limit for jury service in England and Wales.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th March 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Council launches legal bid to abolish sheltered housing wardens – Daily Telegraph
“Council officials are attempting to force through plans to abolish round-the-clock wardens in housing for vulnerable elderly people despite the worst winter in decades.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
High court bars ‘easyCouncil’ from removing live-in wardens – The Guardian
“A high court judge today stopped a council from removing 24-hour live-in wardens from sheltered housing in a blow to the Conservative authority’s attempt to remodel itself as ‘easyCouncil’ after the no-frills budget airline easyJet.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Mouth tape’ care worker sentenced – The Independent
“A care worker who ‘humiliated’ an 89-year-old dementia patient by taping his mouth shut and forcing him to lie on the floor was given a suspended jail sentence today.”
The Independent, 19th October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Care home resident aged 106 loses closure fight – The Guardian
“A battle by one of Britain’s oldest women to stop the closure of her council-run care home failed at the court of appeal today.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Drug-smuggling pensioners jailed – BBC News
“Three pensioners involved in a £5m cannabis smuggling operation have been jailed.”
BBC News, 1st October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Son of 106-year-old woman fighting eviction to take fight to Europe – Daily Telegraph
“The son of a 106-year-old woman threatened with eviction from her care home as part of local council cost cutting has pledged to take her fight to the European Court of Human Rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Man, 74, given ‘no speaking’ Asbo – BBC News
“A 74-year-old man from Devon has been barred from speaking to anyone aged under 18 in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Domestic abuse death police sorry – BBC News
“Police have been forced to apologise to a family and change domestic abuse policies after the murder of a 75-year-old woman.”
BBC News, 16th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pressure grows for inquiry into deaths of elderly patients at Gosport hospital – The Guardian
“Pressure is growing for a public inquiry into a series of deaths of elderly people at a hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, as a doctor faces the General Medical Council charged with giving patients excessive doses of the drug diamorphine.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gosport deaths ‘not important enough’ to justify public inquiry – The Independent
“Questions remain after 92 elderly people died unexpectedly at the same Hampshire hospital, a story first highlighted by The IoS on 15 March.”
The Independent, 26th April 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
OAP guilty of sex act in cathedral toilet – The Independent
“An 85-year-old pensioner who regularly followed young boys into the toilets at St Paul’s Cathedral was told by a judge today he could remain free provided he did not spend too long in public lavatories.”
The Independent, 9th January 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Home fined over resident’s death – BBC News
“The owners of an Oxford care home have been fined £80,000 following the death of an 82-year-old woman with dementia.”
BBC News, 9th January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pensioner to sue after walking frame snaps – Daily Telegraph
“A pensioner is suing his local council for up to £50,000 after he was injured when an allegedly ‘inadequate’ walking frame it gave him snapped and cause him to fall and injure himself.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Senile rapist, 82, avoids prison – BBC News
“An 82-year-old rapist with dementia has avoided a jail sentence for an attack he committed in 1993 because of his diminished mental state.”
BBC News, 27th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Doctor who lied after failing to visit pensioner who died in fire spared jail – Daily Telegraph
“A family doctor who lied ‘in a moment of panic’ after failing to visit a vulnerable pensioner before she died in a fire at her home has been spared jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
