The Latest Breaking News on Ageing

The UK’s fertility rate is at an all-time low, and many other countries face similar declines, creating ageing populations. But can ecological benefits of fewer people outweigh social problems created?

Reasearch finds premature birth rates increased by around 25 per cent in most deprived areas

A Sydney woman, the live-in carer for her chronically ill mother, has avoided a jail term for failing to provide her the necessities of life.

Donna Ockenden has led a number of patient safety reviews in the health service,

Guardian investigation revealed scale of penalties for unwitting breaches of carer’s allowance earnings limits

Naomi Whitehead attains status after death of Elizabeth Francis, who was third-oldest known living person in world

SINGLETON'S Mercy Services nursing home is closing down after 40 years forcing the relocation of 38 residents.

The second edition of the Spirit of Paimio conference, ‘Reimagining Community’, brings together a group of architects, writers, designers, astrophysicists, and artists to think and talk about what it means to be in community at the sanatorium turned Modernist site

COMMENT: By not starting a family, I always believed I was doing my bit to save the planet, says Gina Beach – but as the birth rate in Britain plummets to a record low, am I contributing to an even more pressing problem?