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• Rise in UK state pension age ‘could stop women caring for older relatives’

  06-11-2022 16:21
  New report says increase in work time by 30 hours a week due to raising SPA will lead to a drop in care time of 6.3 hours a weekThe increase in women’s state pension age could force mothers and daughters to withdraw the free, informal care they give the UK’s rapidly ageing population, a paper has warned. The report, entitled Should I Care or Should I Work? The Impact of Work on Informal Care, says this family care must be urgently replaced by significant increases in state spending o
  
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• Matt Hancock’s I’m a Celeb appearance ‘insulting’, says bereaved daughter

  06-11-2022 14:22
  Dr Cathy Gardner, whose father died from Covid in a care home, called on viewers to boycott the ITV show A bereaved daughter who won a high court ruling that Matt Hancock’s policy on care home discharges at the start of the Covid pandemic was unlawful, has urged TV viewers to boycott his appearance on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!Dr Cathy Gardner, whose father was among over 11,000 care home residents in England whose deaths involved Covid in March and April 2020, said
  
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