Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The co-chair of the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care has said that staff caring for older people who do not show dignity “have to go”. Sir Keith Pearson was speaking to the Today …

A new report into the treatment of elderly people in hospitals and care homes has recommended that compassion should be as much of a recruitment criteria for nurses, doctors and care workers as their exam results. The Dignity in Care report has said …

– as the Delivering Dignity report counsels – is part of treating people as individualsAnyone who writes for a living ought to be especially conscious of the way words shape perception.

It must be good news that three major bodies have come together to consider the dignity of older people in hospitals and care homes. We must hope that this will have a positive effect on the poor care that too many older people now receive. But anyone …

Being compassionate should be as important as being clever when it comes to the recruitment of staff to care for the elderly, experts say. The recommendation was one of a series made by the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care for Older People to …

Residents and relatives should be given a direct say in the running of care homes, according to a report examining how care for the elderly could be improved. The Delivering Dignity report by Age UK, the NHS Confederation and Local Government Association …