Pensioners may struggle with a range of tasks such as taking their medication, eating on their own, getting washed or getting in to the bath, getting dressed, going to the toilet or just getting out of bed on their own.
Researchers from the University of Southampton are part of an international team that has helped to create a molecule that can cause cancer cells to die by carrying sodium and chloride ions into the cells.
The number of drugs dished out to treat diabetes has soared as the condition continues to take its toll on people across the nation, new figures show.
You might think your middle-aged spread is down to an idle lifestyle, but it seems its more to do with a lazy brain.
Durham Crown Court heard that the siblings, from Darlington, were pulled over in a van, in the back of which was found their elderly victim and the money they had already conned from her, hidden in the only bush they had removed from her garden.
In a development described as an exceptional feat, researchers in the US have created tissue which contains white and grey matter and has the same chemical and electrical functions as a human brain.
More than 100 home-care services for the elderly have been given low ratings for how they are run, according to latest figures from the Care Inspectorate.
A blood vessel-creating gene that could be used to combat cancer, heart disease and strokes has been identified by scientists.
A pioneering trial has started to look at whether gene therapy can help the recovery of patients who are waiting for heart transplants.
Research commissioned by Relate, the relationship charity, found that more than a third of working parents do not see or speak to their own children every day because they are too busy at the office.
