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Full marks to the care home and to a determined bird-watching resident. BBC story.

Monday to Thursday this week at 9.00 each evening, Channel 4 is running a series of documentaries under the banner ‘The Trouble with Old People’.

This article starts with interesting statistics on the public’s response to a BBC programme on long-term care costs. More evidence that under the divisive English system (which the White Paper failed to tackle), service users and carers play piggy-in-the-middle between health and social care services, to their cost.

BBC report on social services finances

Read these thought-provoking statistics on numbers of older people and carers in the province of Malaga. Also has interesting section at the end re Spain’s forthcoming equivalent of FACS.

Modern medicine is redefining old age and may soon allow people to live regularly beyond the current upper limit of 120 years, experts said on Wednesday. It used to be thought there was some inbuilt limit on lifespan, but a group of scientists meeting at Oxford University for a conference on life extension and enhancement consigned that idea to the dustbin.

The proposed Pennsylvania Senior Alert System Act is under review in the state House. The measure would require guardians or health care providers to notify authorities of any missing person over age 18 with a condition that leaves him or her confused or dependent on others.

Cheshire West PCT spokeswoman said the Royal College of Physicians’s report on the way older people’s services should be provided and the recent White Paper ‘had to be taken into consideration before we settle on a preferred option for the long-term use of the new unit which delivers best value for patients and the public purse.’

Cool quick guide to health inequalities. You need to be able to use flash on your computer to use it.