Counsel and Care, the national charity working with older people, their families and carers to get the best care and support, has welcomed the Health Select Committee’s report into social care, but calls for interim measures suggested in the report to be taken up and implemented as soon as possible.

In December, we led Mature Times with criticism of reduced Government spending on Alzheimer’s research. In January, the Government replied to those comments. Here, Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive of Alzheimer’s Research Trust, explains why - while welcoming some Government initiatives - she still feels the issue is not receiving the priority it deserves.

The Prime Minister’s unprecedented pledge made today for better care for all older people has been welcomed by the national charity Counsel and Care.  But it warns that it will only become reality if backed by a radical vision for a national care service and sufficient funding to meet current and future needs.

Around 110,000 women are each set to miss out on up to £10,400 over the next decade because they were born as little as a day too early to benefit from changes to state pension rules, Liberal Democrat research has revealed.

The longer women wait for radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery, the more chance there is of local recurrence, concludes a study published on bmj.com today (3rd March) 

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in the US have found that people who report having greater purpose in their lives appear less  likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. Their findings are published in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA/ Archives journal.

Here Rebecca Wood, Chief Executive of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, responds to the findings.

The Liberal Democrats will today vote in Parliament against the decision to freeze state pension top-up payments this April, which will leave almost nine million pensioners worse off.