An important and worrying survey by the UK Home Care Association highlighting the risks to older people's human rights of ever-shorter home care visits confirms the interim findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's formal inquiry into the human rights of older people receiving care at home.   

The survey found that home care clients were receiving shorter visits and losing access to services such as safety checks.  82% of 111 UK Councils and health and social care trusts had cut t...
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