Mr Burstow, who chaired the committee of MPs and peers scrutinising the Government’s Bill to reform the system, will announce a commission of experts tomorrow to design a new model.
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Sex and dementia: Aging population set for 'rape case timebomb' in nursing homes in USA
This problem will come to the UK
By James Nye
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Sex among dementia sufferers from the Baby Boomer generation is set to become a legal minefield for nursing homes and bring potential heart-break to their healthy spouses and children.
Currently, there approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million.
With those numbers only due to go up, the $120 billion nursing home industry expects massive financial growth – but as the Baby Boomers age, their carers and families will surely be faced with difficult legal, ethical and moral questions.
There approximately five million people in the U.S. who have Alzheimer’s and with 40 million people in the U.S. now currently aged over 65 – that number is expected to rise over the next decade to 7.1 million
Lonely lives of the rural elderly
Shop closures and bus service cuts causing social isolation says report which found half of over 75s living alone.
Elderly people who retire to the countryside face spending their final years in isolation as villages suffer cuts to bus services and post office closures, a report warns today.
Half of Britons older than 75 are living alone. The study finds that the closure of local shops and the death of loved ones leaves many without support or social contact.
It comes as the Government warns that too many rural communities have been failed by past decisions taken in Whitehall.
Ministers are launching new rules urging all government officials to consider the impact of their plans on villages and small towns from Cornwall to Cumbria.
