Lesley Calvert, a former district nurse from Salford who thought she was ‘losing her marbles’, describes living with dementia before her diagnosis

Dementia United, a new partnership led by health experts, was launched in Manchester on Friday.

The public health agenda of each of the areas will now be driven by plans laid out by their own health and wellbeing boards.

Currently 500,000 people in Greater Manchester are already covered and this will increase to 1.1m people, through new initiatives in Wigan and across the city of Manchester funded by over £8m from the national Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund.

Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams explained that the care system was ‘close to collapse’ in a scathing assessment of current practices.

Patients are being moved out of a Rochdale care home, after a damning report published on Friday revealed a series of continuing failures that have put residents at risk.

A new exercise game that hopes to keep the elderly fit enough to avoid serious falls has been developed by Manchester University and Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Manchester City Council revealed details this morning of options available to address a funding shortfall of £59million citywide.

Most child abuse and neglect takes place in the home, was new study by The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Professor Andrew Rowland and Salford University

Greater Manchester care home owner, and former NHS doctor, calls for more funding and radical change in the way the government look after our elderly

Manchester carers are being forced to pay ‘dementia tax’ as the tax they already pay to the NHS won’t cover the cost of care if they fall ill, say the Alzheimer’s Society.