22 September 2011

Festival is set to celebrate the over 50s – A CELEBRATION of life after 50 will start in York this weekend. The York 50+ Festival will include over 90 events for people to join in with, including a huge variety of ways in which to keep fit and healthy.

22 September 2011

Campaign on to save care home – A CAMPAIGN to try to save a ‘flagship’ elderly care centre at Wombwell kicks off in force this weekend. Staff from Highfield Grange will join trade unionists in Barnsley town centre, in a bid to get over 1000 signatures against closure of the intermediate care home.

28 September 2011

Care home management change – EIGHT of several dozen care homes in South Yorkshire belonging to collapsed firm Southern Cross are being transferred to a series of other operators at the end of the week.

10 June 2011

Carers’ Week: Hail the unsung heroes – Ahead of a national Carers’ Week, reporter Kate Liptrot speaks to Jackie Chapman, who has been a carer for most of her life.

10 June 2011

People in York and North Yorkshire living longer – PEOPLE in York and North Yorkshire are living longer than previous years, bucking the national trend.

10 June 2011

Southern Cross care home jobs at risk – WORKERS at Southern Cross care homes in York, North and East Yorkshire face an uncertain future as the firm is set to cut 3,000 jobs nationally.

18 May 2011

Care home company cash crisis puts jobs at risk – A CARE home provider with 27 sites in South Yorkshire has announced it may close 200 of its 750 properties across the country.

18 May 2011

Pensioner died after fall at care home – A PENSIONER died after falling in a care home, an inquest was told.

06 May 2011

Alzheimer’s Society and St Leonard’s Hospice to receive charity grants – THE Alzheimer’s Society and St Leonard’s Hospice have been named as the two beneficiaries of Benenden Healthcare society’s charity grant this year.

07 May 2011

Sweet charity – CHARITY begins at home, they say. Not this week. Nope, tomorrow it begins at the bar – when four big-hearted beer drinkers hold a fundraising event ahead of the Edinburgh Marathon.

08 May 2011

MP put to work in garden at Yeadon care home – MP Stuart Andrew was put to work when he helped out with gardening at a Yeadon care home.

09 May 2011

Care centre’s birthday do – AN information and advice centre for Rotherham’s army of unpaid carers celebrates its first birthday this week.

30 April 2011

Former care home in Chapeltown damaged by fire – A former care home in Leeds has been badly damaged in a fire.

13 January 2011

'Lives at risk' after council scraps visits to elderly – BBC South Yorkshire reports that Doncaster Council is to scrap daily warden visits for elderly and vulnerable people despite claims it will put lives in danger.

13 January 2011

Care home plan to aid football club – The Yorkshire Post reports that a scheme to rescue a football club from financial difficulty by building a 66 bed care home for elderly people with dementia on its grounds will go before the planners this month.