Long Term Care

A five-year commitment to transform health and long-term care (LTC) funding is urgently needed to avoid the care system ‘spiraling towards a deeper crisis', council leaders have warned.

The Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) has announced it is in target to accelerate adviser membership numbers and expand its organisation

Symponia has launched a digital advice site, Club Symponia, to help people navigate the long-term care (LTC) market.

Parliament has approved the Care Act 2014, ushering in significant reforms to adult social work.

Businesses should, as far as is reasonable, make adjustments to support employees who are caring for disabled family members, the Equality and Humans Rights Commission (EHRC) will tell the Court of Appeal today.

The number of elderly people needing care will ‘outstrip' the number of adult children being able to provide informal care by 2017 and will put further pressure on funding, an Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned.

British health and care provision must change to take account of a rapidly ageing population The King's Fund has cautioned.

Equity release specialist Stonehaven has been announced as the latest Ambassador of the Later Life Academy (LLA), the recently launched commercial and training organisation for later life advisers.

The standards required of independent financial advisers in relation to long-term care are ‘simply not high enough', a Labour peer has warned.

Later Life Academy (LLA), the just launched commercial and training organisation for later life advisers, has partnered with equity release legal specialists Equilaw.