Portugal has more than 3,000 centenarians
Portugal has more than 3,000 citizens who are 100 years old, or even older. The tally however does not put this country into the top slot in Europe for its
GNR and Pingo Doce donated Easter baskets to vulnerable community in Faro
Together, they distributed 100 food baskets of essential goods to elderly people identified in the ‘2023 Senior Census Operation’. The National Republican Guard (GNR) and Pingo Doce supermarkets delivered baskets
Frail grandmother discharged from hospital to arrive home dead
Hospital São Francisco Xavier in second drama this week The family of an 87-year-old woman ‘discharged from hospital’ only to arrive home dead are demanding answers from the same busy
Smiles all round – ‘Feliz Ano Novo’ from Castelo de Sonhos
The Silves-based family charity Castelo de Sonhos would like to send a “huge thank you” to everyone who participated in the 19th Christmas Shoebox Campaign for the Elderly. A
Caring for the unloved ones
“The disintegration of traditional family life has destroyed much of a former pattern of elderly parents being cared for at home” Elderly people can be cantankerous, unamusing, uncompromising, smelly,
Elderly residents removed from carehome had scabies
Elderly residents of an unregistered carehome in Vila Franca de Xira “showed signs of poor health and most were infected with scabies”, the local Public Health Authority has confirmed to
Continuous care network frustrated by ‘abandoned people’
National association says facilities “paralysed” by paperwork; government looks other way The National Association of Continuing Care (ANCC) is requesting an urgent meeting with the Attorney General of the Republic
Old people can wait 10 years for care home vacancy
“Old people’s homes have no capacity to respond”, reports SIC Notícias today, citing Vila do Conde where the Santa Casa da Misericórdia has almost 250 seniors on a waiting list.
Portuguese care homes for the elderly “don’t work”
They are operating as they did 20 years ago “when everything has changed” Portuguese nurse Carmen Garcia, author of a book that means to get the country talking about old
Algarve hospitals to provide home care at four nursing homes
Elderly patients to receive medical care without having to leave nursing homes The Algarve University Hospital Centre (CHUA) has extended its home care network to include four nursing homes in