Older people

Woman, 60, arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Dorset care home deaths

A 60-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by detectives investigating the deaths of three people at a care home in Dorset.Officers are still treating the deaths...

Record number of men in care work in England as immigration eases jobs crisis

One in five care workers in England are now men, the highest level on record, according to new...

What’s the secret of the supercentenarians? They don’t really exist | Torsten Bell

Earlier this month, an unusual prize ceremony got under way. Five Nobel laureates gathered at the Massachusetts Institute...

Winter fuel: 780,000 UK pensioners entitled to payment will lose it

About 780,000 pensioners who need the winter fuel payment will lose out on it when Labour begins means-testing...

We did not do impact assessment of winter fuel payment cut, No 10 admits

Ministers did not carry out a specific impact assessment on the withdrawal of the winter fuel payment from...

MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

MPs have voted to remove the winter fuel allowance from all but the poorest pensioners, with a significant number of Labour MPs abstaining.After a...

Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

The government is facing renewed pressure from unions to change course over its decision to strip the winter fuel allowance from the bulk of...

Reeves can loosen Britain’s purse strings: she just needs to think outside the Treasury box | Philip Inman

Pressure is building on Rachel Reeves to prevent some of the UK’s poorest pensioners being hit by restrictions on the winter fuel allowance. A...

Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

Cabinet ministers have grave concerns about Rachel Reeves’s plan to axe the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners, the Guardian can...

It’s all cisterns go for the modern home | Brief letters

As one of three occupants, all well over pensionable age, of a house with four toilets, I can tell Kevin McCloud that when he...

These were not the choices I wanted to make, but they are the right choices for Britain | Rachel Reeves

During the general election, I made a promise to the British people: to restore economic stability. I did so because I saw the damage...