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Overnight search for 'very vulnerable' missing Pitlochry woman Elizabeth Stevenson
Police have been searching overnight for "very vulnerable" elderly woman who has gone missing in Pitlochry. (...)
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'Lowest of the low' — lord provost furious after second theft from pensioner in a week
Dundee Lord Provost John Letford says the man who burst past an 84-year-old disabled woman in her home and stole her handbag containing a significant three-figure sum of money is "scum". (...)
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Man's body may have lain in Bridge of Earn home for weeks
A Perthshire pensioner may have been dead for a number of weeks before his body was discovered, it has emerged. (...)
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Dramatic demographic changes raise questions of how Scotland will care for its elderly
Scotland's ageing population will expand massively over the next two decades, as the prosperity and longevity of 'baby boomers' threaten to tip the demographic scales. (...)
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Tayside elderly hospital readmissions highest in Scotland
Older people in Tayside are more likely to be readmitted to hospital within a month of being discharged than anywhere else in Scotland, according to latest figures. (...)
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Review of elderly care in Fife raises questions over future of Cameron Hospital
NHS Fife has refused to rule out the closure of Cameron Hospital in Windygates. (...)
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Neighbours asked to play their part in protecting elderly from fire danger
Tayside fire chiefs have sent out a stark safety warning after a 93-year-old man died in an Angus house fire. (...)
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'We could have been visiting a mortuary today' — family shocked by terrifying attack on elderly woman in her Hilltown home
A Dundee grandmother was left in fear for her life when a violent intruder barged into her home on Saturday night. (...)
Dundee care worker cleared of assaulting elderly woman in his care, with further charges dropped by the Crown
A Dundee care worker has been acquitted of assaulting an elderly resident in his care. (...)
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Minister advises against attending private firm's health clinics being held at her church
A Dundee minister has advised people not to attend a health screening clinic organised for her own church. (...)
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Council Conservative group leader says day care service price rises are an attack on the old
A dramatic rise in the cost of day care services in Perth and Kinross has been slammed as an attack on "the old, the frail and the infirm." (...)
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Late bid to block Fife Council's care homes plan defeated
A last-ditch bid to stop the privatisation of care homes in Fife failed as the council approved measures to help plug a £127 million gap in its capital investment plan. (...)
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Fife Council urged to rethink private sector care homes plan in light of Southern Cross problems
Fife Council is coming under increased pressure to abandon its plans to privatise the region's care home services. (...)
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Joe FitzPatrick raises 'appalling' Ninewells Hospital case at Holyrood debate
The "appalling" treatment of an elderly dementia patient in Ninewells Hospital is a "sad reflection on all of us," a Dundee MSP has told his parliamentary colleagues. (...)
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Southern Cross announcement raises fears for jobs — and care of the elderly
The jobs of staff at nearly 20 care homes in Tayside and Fife are under threat after troubled firm Southern Cross announced it is to cut 3000 posts across the UK. (...)
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Ninewells Hospital's 'Mrs V' case prompts national action on care of dementia patients
Inspection teams are to be sent into Scottish hospitals in a bid to ensure there is no repeat of the "woefully inadequate" care given to a dementia patient in Dundee. (...)
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Crisis-hit Southern Cross care group rent payments deferred
A nursing home group with responsibility for the care of hundreds of people in Tayside and Fife is to defer payment on almost a third of the rent on its properties over the summer. (...)
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Damning report says Ninewells Hospital dementia patient's treatment may have infringed her human rights
An 80-year-old woman with dementia died in Ninewells Hospital after receiving care that was "woefully inadequate, wholly inappropriate and utterly unacceptable," NHS Tayside has admitted. (...)
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Claim that home adaptations will drive up rents for many elderly and disabled people
Housing associations could lose hundreds of thousands of pounds under new regulations, Labour MSP Helen Eadie has claimed. (...)
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Angus community alarm price hike attacked as 'tax on the elderly'
A leading local campaigner has come out in support of a 95-year-old Edzell man's comments over what he described as the "outrageous increase" in the cost of the community alarm system. (...)
